Every year, the Maldives generates nearly 22,000 tons of plastic waste, and, due to poor waste management practices, as much as a third of it ends up in our coastal areas. With support from the OIC, adelphi GmbH is helping the Government of the Maldives to put in place a national Extended Producer Responsibility framework that will help the Maldives to close the loop on plastics wastes to reduce ocean pollution. 

• Improved waste knowledge base for decision-making
  Both Maldives' policymakers and entrepreneurs from its private sector will benefit from an enhanced plastic and packaging waste management knowledge base as decision-support to establishing a regulated waste management system.
• Public-private partnerships
  The innovators will engage stakeholders from the public sector, private sector, and civil society to improve their understanding of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme to ensure ownership and discuss their roles and responsibilities within it.
• Creation of national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme
  It involves the design of an innovation-stimulating EPR scheme for plastic and packaging waste and enables the Ministry of Environment (MoE) to transpose it into national law.

IMPLEMENTATION STATUS

• Progress summary as of November 2022 (PDF)
• Watch this short video to know about the Year 2021 status of adelphi's ocean innovation.