Sri Lanka

Trials of Improved Practices Manual

This manual is intended to introduce Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to organizations Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Sri Lanka Fact Sheet

As a densely populated island nation of 21 million (2018), Sri Lanka faces unique challenges in managing its solid waste. Waste management systems in the country have struggled to keep pace as urban populations have grown and system funding, organization, while local government resources have remained static. Across the country,… Read More

Six Ways USAID is Advancing Gender Equality in the Waste Sector

Women play a critical role in the waste sector, as informal workers collecting plastics, or as owners of recycling centers and upcycling businesses—preventing plastic waste from reaching the ocean. Read More

Fostering Partnerships in Sri Lanka to Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution

As a densely populated island nation of over 21 million people, Sri Lanka faces unique challenges managing its solid waste—including providing waste collection services to all of its residents. With only 20 percent—a little over 5 million households—having access to waste collection services, much of the waste ends up in… Read More

Island Climate Initiative, USAID launch Island Plastics Challenge to help consumer goods companies address plastic waste

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, November 28, 2022 – In support of the Ministry of Environment’s policy on plastic waste reduction, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) partner, Island Climate Initiative (ICI) under USAID’s global Clean Cities Blue Ocean Program, is  calling on innovators around the world to design solutions… Read More

CCBO Launches New Capacity Building Tool for Local Governments

More than 22 million tons of plastic leak into our aquatic environment each year, the majority from land-based sources in communities and cities that aren’t able to adequately collect and manage local waste.  Local governments have an important role in providing on-the-ground services to control waste and prevent ocean plastic… Read More

USAID Sri Lanka Ocean Plastics Reduction Activity (Ocean Plastics) Contract Opportunity

The USAID Mission for Sri Lanka and Maldives released a request for proposal on February 3, 2022, for a flagship Ocean Plastics Reduction project. The project aims to reduce plastics available to the environment, by reducing plastics inputs and improving integrated solid waste management (SWM) practices,… Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program Key Results and Impacts

Launched in 2016, the Municipal Waste Recycling Program was USAID’s first formal response to the urgent challenge of plastic pollution in developing countries. Download the infographic to view the program’s key results and impacts. Read More

MWRP Sri Lanka: Engaging Business Sectors to Reduce Plastic Waste

 Municipalities in Sri Lanka struggle to collect and properly dispose of solid waste in their jurisdictions, particularly the growing volume of plastic waste. Renewed economic growth, after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, has strained the country’s solid waste management system. Insufficient disposal sites and mismanaged processes… Read More

MWRP Sri Lanka: Partnering with the Private Sector to Reduce Plastic Waste from Tourism

Tourism remains a critical economic sector in Sri Lanka following the end of the country’s long civil war. Read More