"The use of plastic waste in roads is an emerging technology spreading worldwide, through either pilot projects or roads that are in use"
Source - Plastic Waste In Road Construction: A Path Worth Paving? - World Bank
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The Plastic Free Rivers and Seas for South Asia (PLEASE) project, implemented by the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), funded by the World Bank, and supported by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), is a pioneering regional initiative addressing the critical issue of plastic pollution in South Asia. From 2020 to 2025, the five-year project has invested USD 37 million to enhance the innovation and coordination of circular plastic economy approaches across South Asia, involving the public, private sector, and non-government stakeholders.
Covering eight member countries of SACEP: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, the PLEASE project primarily focuses on:
(1) Improving the identification and testing of plastic pollution mitigation solutions,
(2) Increasing the leveraging of policy solutions and public-private sector engagement in plastic pollution, waste, and leakage mitigation across the value chain, and
(3) Strengthening regional integration institutions.
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