Plastic Reboot

Project Overview

Plastic Reboot’s Dominican Republic Project, implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources with support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims to decrease the production and waste of single-use plastic packaging through a circular economy approach in the Food and Beverage (F&B) sector.

Project Components

The project aims to achieve the following main outcomes:

• Legal and policy frameworks enhanced and dialogue between key stakeholders (private, CSO, government) enabled;

• Financial capacities built for the introduction of circular business models, sustainable packaging, plastic free models and plastic circularity;

• Innovative business models implemented and evaluated, and capacity built for research and learning;

• Consumer behavior changed to promote plastic reduction, circular economy, and sustainable alternatives to the use of plastics.

Global Environmental Benefits

Plastic Reboot’s Dominican Republic Project works in coordination of the Global Project and aims to trigger a system change to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy of plastics, with concerted actions by key stakeholders across the plastics life cycle to end plastics pollution. It will provide Global Environment Benefits in terms of:

• 24,268 metric tons of CO2e directly avoided outside agriculture, forest, and other land use sector

• 0.5 gTEQ of unintentional persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) to air reduced

• 11,158 metric tons of plastic waste avoided

• Benefiting 10,770,000 inhabitants of the country