FINILOOP is a city-level plastic waste management programme which connects and strengthens actors along the entire waste value and service chain to ensure cleaner environments for all and a more inclusive and transparent circular plastic economy. This is made possible by working together with local partners to help strengthen and scale local enterprises and start-ups, create safer and more dignified job opportunities for informal waste workers, empower communities and attract additional funds into the waste value chain.
In this first phase (2022-25) the FINILOOP programme is currently active in three cities in India: Udaipur, Amritsar and Jaipur. Through FINILOOP our mission is to:
- Enhance solid waste & plastic waste management.
- Improve livelihoods of (in)formal waste workers.
- Professionalise and scale the plastic recycling sector.
- Create cleaner communities through awareness raising and behaviour change.
Learn more about our expertise in solid waste management, including plastics.
Our activities in the plastic waste value chain
To improve and scale plastic waste management systems globally, FINILOOP uses WASTE’s multi-stakeholder approach. Resulting in (local) governments, households, entrepreneurs, financiers, and other key stakeholders, having organised themselves in such a way that they are able to sustain a local plastic waste value chain. Thereby, ensuring communities can live in a clean and healthy environment. There are many types of plastics and complex value chains that need addressing through knowledge management and expertise.
We do so by:
- Raising awareness about plastic waste, its health effects and source separation at the household level
- Empowering waste workers (predominately women and youth) to create jobs
- Professionalising the plastic recycling sector and introducing innovations
- Integrating local financial resources and developing new finance products
- Setting up collaboration with governments and development partners to make scale happen
As a result, we improve the quality of solid waste services and quality of recycled plastic, whilst boosting plastic recycling rates. FINILOOP focuses on building local capacities in facilitating plastic recycling loans to improve recycling infrastructure, plastic recycling business development, and waste separation at the source.
Sustainability
Plastic waste pollution in cities is mostly caused by malfunctioning solid waste management systems whereby the different actors are not linked, by bringing them together, and working on the improvement of the sector in all for ‘Diamond domains’ the sector can strengthen, resulting in less waste ending up in the environment, more opportunities for private (in)formal sector and a stronger municipality.
The first phase of the FINILOOP programme is active from 2022-25.