Evolving forimpact

Progress report 2024

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Chair’s message

Jim Fitterling

Chair of the board, alliance to end plastic waste Chair and chief executive officer, dow

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Ceo's message

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Jacob Duer

President & Chief executive officer

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Impacts metrics at a glance

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The impact of our projects around the world continues to grow.

In 2024, our direct footprint continued to increase in terms of tonnage of plastic waste our projects collected and recycled, the number of people we reached through education programmes, and the finance we leveraged from other parties. In parallel, we remain committed to further strengthening our independent assurance process, so that the metrics we report are accurate, robust, and compliant with international standards.

This is vital for instilling trust in our work and fostering informed dialogue in pursuit of the Alliance’s mission.

Our Impact Metrics Framework outlines the guiding principles that we report against. It sets out the data and metrics that underpin the material topics stemming from our mission: Enable the Ecosystem; Mobilise Capital; Reduce Unmanaged Waste; Capture Value from Waste; Create Social Benefit; Mitigate Climate Change; and Develop Solution Models. Since 2022, our assurance provider, DNV, has supported us in assessing the assurance-readiness of our metrics in line with the global assurance standard ISAE 3000.

focus for our work - India, South Africa and Indonesia - it is possible that the rate of increase in direct impact will slow or level off. That is to be expected. Plastic tonnage remains an important impact measure for our programs but to effect change at greater scale other metrics will become more crucial. One thing that is already clear is that our Mobilise Capital metric is set to become more important as we operate at greater scale through our country programmes, supported by Development Finance Institutions and other financial institutions.

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Strategy refresh

Last year, we took the decision to refresh our strategy.

Our role as a global laboratory developing new technologies, business models and solutions for ending plastic waste leakage in the environment has yielded significant progress and will not alter. Nor will our mission to create a global circular economy for plastic through systems change. But building on the knowledge and experience we’ve gained from projects around the world, we see an opportunity to accelerate our impact.

The evolution of our strategy didn’t happen on a whim. It was undertaken in close consultation with our members and with input from our strategic partners and the projects we sponsor. The result is the answer to a simple question:

How can we evolve for greater impact, while holding to our core purpose and mission?

The short answer is by scaling up. Our future programming will be on a much larger scale than the projects the Alliance has funded previously. Programme design will fall into two categories, country-specific or thematic, with funding weighted towards emerging and developing countries. This represents the logical next step in our evolution.

The envisaged country programmes will be large-scale efforts aligned with national priorities to tackle the integrated system change needed to decrease plastic pollution and increase recycling rates. They will support each country to move up the cycling maturity curve and address the market gaps that are currently acting as a roadblock to achieving plastics circularity.

Three country programmes were approved in December — Indonesia, South Africa and India — along with one thematic programme focussed on flexibles. Others will follow, but these were chosen in part because of their potential for impact, but also because of the expertise and experience we have gained from existing projects and solution models.

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Developing & testing solutions

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Enabling the ecosystem

Enabling the ecosystem.

The transition from a take-make-dispose economy for plastic to one with circularity atits core requires complex shifts that no one actor can accomplish alone. This requires, collective endeavour, which the Alliance seeks to facilitate through the dualroles of catalyst and convenor. We identify, innovate, and iterate scalable solutions tospeed up their adoption. To do that, we bring together viewpoints from businesses,governments, municipalities, related public agencies, multilateral organisations, Producer Responsibility Organisations, trade associations, academic institutions,communities, the informal sector, and NGOs from around the globe to facilitate theflow of ideas.

As an independent non-profit organisation with members from across the plastic value
 chain, we apply a global perspective to facilitate information flow between different actors, serving as a conduit for expertise and on-the-ground experience across global borders. In 2024, we engaged with XXX organisations, directly as well as through our network of project partners, strategic allies and supporters to advance our mission. Through our behaviour-change and education programmes that are developed with the support of our partners, we reached XXXXXX members of the public in 2024.

Beyond broader education, an important forum for high-level engagement are the variety of international meetings that bring together global stakeholders with a shared ambition to end plastic waste. In 2024, these included Climate Week; the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention meetings; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan; the International Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution meetings in Ottawa, Canada and Busan, South Korea.

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