Building a Future for Women in South Asia’s Plastics Waste Management
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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This report focuses on the role of
key stakeholders (policy makers, waste management
practitioners, civil society, informal workers’
organizations, and the private sector) in contributing to
pollution reduction in South Asia while also enhancing
livelihood prospects for informal waste workers—the most
vulnerable of whom tend to be women. The report also
demonstrates how reducing pollution and enhancing livelihood
prospects are commercially sound strategies for companies
and investors. Through examining the role of women in South
Asia’s plastic waste management systems and the challenges
they face the report provides recommendations for
collaborative action to improve and safeguard women’s
livelihoods in this sector More specifically, it examines
the role of women in South Asia’s plastic waste management
systems and the challenges they face and provides
recommendations for collaborative action to improve and
safeguard women’s livelihoods in this sector. Plastic
pollution requires ‘upstream’ (waste prevention, such as
reuse and repair) and ‘downstream’ (waste management,
including recycling) solutions (Pew and SYSTEMIQ 2020).
Upstream and downstream solutions fall under the broad
definition of ‘materials management’. The report focuses
primarily on the ‘downstream’ aspect and key vulnerable
actors, who face an imminent threat of displacement, but
highlights the need to better understand and engage with
vulnerable actors within upstream solutions as well.
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PLASTIC POLLUTION REDUCTION, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, WASTE MANAGEMENT, MATERIALS MANAGEMENT, VULNERABLE WOMEN INCLUSION, CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION, SDG 6