Plastic Reboot
About
Mission
Working around the world, we’re partnering with governments, businesses, civil society organizations and experts to build systems that keep plastic out of nature. Circular systems that rethink how plastic packaging and products are designed to reduce, reuse, and prevent pollution.
Through 15 country projects, Plastic Reboot provides catalytic funding, coordination, and technical support to find and test circular policies and solutions. We focus on: Eliminating single use and problematic plastic, Designing for circularity, & Changing systems to support circularity in practice.
While Plastic Reboot works locally to identify solutions to plastic pollution, we’re also working globally to create the conditions for scale – building the policies, financing mechanisms and networks that help breakthroughs benefit all.
Together, we’re creating a world where convenient products and packaging are also the safe and sustainable ones. A world where nature and people are free from plastic pollution. Forever.
Who We Are
Plastic Reboot is supported by the Global Environment Facility, co-led by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Wildlife Fund, and implemented in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
Plastic Reboot is active in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Jordan, Laos, Peru, Philippines, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa.
Our Approach
The plastic pollution crisis is one of the most pressing environmental issues today, with major adverse impacts on ecosystem health, food supply integrity, and our livelihoods. This crisis is severe in both scope and scale—and it is getting worse as plastic flows into nature at an unprecedented rate.
Packaging, including the food and beverage sectors, account for approximately 40% of this volume. Addressing this enormous challenge requires coordinated action, both globally and nationally.
That’s why Plastic Reboot set out to reduce plastic pollution by advancing upstream and midstream circular solutions in the food and beverage sector. Delivered through a Global Project and implemented within a suite of 15 country-level National Projects, we plan to trigger systems change that accelerates the transition towards a circular economy of plastics and prevents plastic pollution through upstream solutions.
By the Numbers
Partners
We are active in 15 countries around the globe: Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Jordan, Laos, Peru, Philippines, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa.
Together, we are steering Plastic Reboot to advance upstream and midstream circular solutions in the food and beverage sector.
