The study’s objective aims to (i) identify options for increasing operational finance for solid waste, specifically organic waste and plastic pollution management to improve sustainable operational finance, (ii) identify and develop practical financing structures for private sector investments and climate funding for investments and operational finance, and (iii) define and test implementable financing arrangements for lower income countries (LICs)/lower middle income countries (LMICs)/middle income countries (MICs) which can be supported by international finance agencies with focus on replicability and scalability.

The scope of work is divided into key parts: (i) current modes of financing, considerations and (policy) options to mobilize (operational) finance for improvement of solid and plastic waste management; (ii) opportunities for and examples of public-private structuring, traditional and environmental policy instruments to support improved waste and plastic management; (iii) increasing role of carbon financing in the waste sector to reduce methane emissions from waste and possible financing options from a global treaty on plastics that is under negotiation; and iv) lessons learned, recommendations and indicative roadmaps for four country case studies for integrated financing approaches for both the investments as well as the operational costs to support scalable, replicable and bankable solid waste and plastic management investment projects.

This main audiences of the report and knowledge papers are local governments, national governments as well as development and international financing partners and their interest in bankable, replicable and scalable solid waste and plastics investments.

The report will include evidence-based examples of regulations, policies, instruments, financing/fiscal arrangements and practices specifically targeting LICs and MICs to increase financial resources towards plastics and waste management, collection and minimization and recovery/recycling, where available with examples for specific policies to improve organic waste minimization, diversion, treatment.  

The study’s objective aims to (i) identify options for increasing operational finance for solid waste, specifically organic waste and plastic pollution management to improve sustainable operational finance, (ii) identify and develop practical financing structures for private sector investments and climate funding for investments and operational finance, and (iii) define and test implementable financing arrangements for lower income countries (LICs)/lower middle income countries (LMICs)/middle income countries (MICs) which can be supported by international finance agencies with focus on replicability and scalability.

The scope of work is divided into key parts: (i) current modes of financing, considerations and (policy) options to mobilize (operational) finance for improvement of solid and plastic waste management; (ii) opportunities for and examples of public-private structuring, traditional and environmental policy instruments to support improved waste and plastic management; (iii) increasing role of carbon financing in the waste sector to reduce methane emissions from waste and possible financing options from a global treaty on plastics that is under negotiation; and iv) lessons learned, recommendations and indicative roadmaps for four country case studies for integrated financing approaches for both the investments as well as the operational costs to support scalable, replicable and bankable solid waste and plastic management investment projects.

This main audiences of the report and knowledge papers are local governments, national governments as well as development and international financing partners and their interest in bankable, replicable and scalable solid waste and plastics investments.

The report will include evidence-based examples of regulations, policies, instruments, financing/fiscal arrangements and practices specifically targeting LICs and MICs to increase financial resources towards plastics and waste management, collection and minimization and recovery/recycling, where available with examples for specific policies to improve organic waste minimization, diversion, treatment

These examples, options, models and integrated financing approaches with roadmaps will support local and national governments to design and implement practical financing arrangements for operational funding and hence investment financing to improve municipal waste management services and waste and plastic minimization and recovery/recycling.