In Sri Lanka, the Plastic Free Rivers and Seas for South Asia Project focuses on reducing plastic pollution by enhancing waste management practices, promoting recycling, and increasing public awareness. The project collaborates with local communities and authorities to implement sustainable solutions, aiming to protect the country’s rivers and coastal areas from plastic waste.
As part of the PLEASE Project initiative to curb marine plastic pollution and ramp up eco-innovations to reinvent plastic use and production, the project has granted two Regional Block Grants (RBG) and two Innovation Grants (IG) to recipients from Sri Lanka from the component 1 phase of ‘Supporting Competitive Block Grant Investments to Reduce Plastic Waste’. The proposals came from various community-based organisations and institutions registered in participating South Asian nations, aiming to initiate change on the ground at local, national, and/or regional levels.