Tools

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), alongside other partners, has co-developed a series of bespoke tools to help countries tackle the plastic waste pollution crisis. As we work towards a binding and inclusive treaty on plastic pollution, these tools address both upstream and downstream capacity gaps across behaviour change, actions roadmaps, recommendations and delivery frameworks.

National Analysis and Modelling Tool

GPAP's National Analysis and Modeling (NAM) Tool allows countries to establish a science-based roadmap to accelerate their transition to a circular, low carbon emissions plastics system. What the tool does: 

The rigorous, data-based approach serves as a critical foundation for aligning and rallying diverse stakeholders behind a national action plan to address plastic pollution.

1. Assess a country’s plastic pollution situation.

2. Simulate a multitude of solution scenarios and their environmental, economic and social implications.

3. Confirm the most effective and realistic System Change Scenario and outlines steps to achieve it. 


The rigorous, data-based approach serves as a critical foundation for aligning and rallying diverse stakeholders behind a national action plan to address plastic pollution. The tool is based on the Breaking the Plastic Wave methodology and compatible with UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP)and IUCN’s hot-spotting analysis.

Our work on Gender Equity and Social Inclusion

People are at the heart of the plastics crisis – and people are also the key to solving it. 

GPAP aims to support a inclusive global action to reduce plastic pollution. We believe that solutions to the plastics crisis must be rooted in the experiences of those most impacted by plastic pollution in order to be truly effective and sustainable. 

Our work on Biodiversity

Drawing on over seven years of experience since GPAP's founding in 2018, we recognize the importance of aligning the plastics agenda with broader global environmental priorities—particularly biodiversity loss, a crisis both directly and indirectly affected by plastic pollution.

With support from the Government of Canada, we are expanding our efforts to address the critical link between plastic pollution and biodiversity.

Circular Industry Solutions Report

The Reuse Portal

The Reuse Portal is an open collaborative platform providing users – whether innovators, businesses, policymakers, activists, consumers or citizens – convenient access to practical guidance, tools and networks to take action and drive momentum for reuse solutions. It is championed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Economic Forum.

Unlocking the Plastics Circular Economy: Case Studies on Investment

While both the private and public sectors are mobilizing to address the plastic waste challenge, there is an urgent need to accelerate the pace of investment. In collaboration with Global Plastic Action Partnership (World Economic Forum), we published a set of case studies which demonstrates how private capital can unlock opportunities in the circular economy and the critical role policy needs to play to stimulate investor interest

Let's Connect

Do you work for a government, business, intergovernmental organization, or civil society? Join forces with GPAP to fast-track our collective progress towards a world free of plastic waste and pollution.


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