Work package 1: It aims to address the City management´s challenges and together with key city officials develop a consistent, technically sound, sustainable development path for improved SWM services and operational models, including legal, technical and financial management approaches. The set of instruments will include a baseline assessment including institutional, technical and financial aspects as well as an estimation of currently mismanaged waste/ quantities of plastic waste; an integrated Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) including a GHG reduction potential assessment; support to the City in developing local regulations, e.g. on waste management financing mechanisms, phase out single use plastics etc.; a monitoring system for SWM system.

Work package 2: It aims to promote a shift towards circular economy for plastic, considering potential options, involved stakeholders and their motivation / engagement and instruments to promote application of the circular economy for plastic. The Contractor will provide expertise and recommendations to the City for establishing an innovation grant scheme for initiatives, projects, SMEs aiming to stimulate actions along the plastic value chain such as innovative products, materials, technology and/ or business plans, locally closed consumption and production loops, behaviour change. The contractor will develop a change strategy or a concept note on desired changes and priority improvement measures for plastic reduction, alternative materials, reuse/ return systems, design for recyclability, financial implications and instruments, and needs for coordination with national level government/ stakeholders.

Work package 3: This work package aims to improve the collection, recovery and processing of recyclables in the City, in close collaboration with the informal sector. The activities are focusing on plastic waste and other recyclable waste management at the city level, both on improving the recovery and sound processing of recyclables according to market demands and opportunities, in order to improve the recycling rates and maintain plastics within the value chain. Pilot projects for recyclable waste collection and process will be developed. The pilots will also consider possible sources of finance, including local subsidies for NGOs working with the informal sector.

Work package 4: The work package aims to shift the citizens’ perception and behaviour on waste but also on consumption patterns, resulting in positive short- and long-term impacts on plastic pollution. Activities are focusing on providing advisory services to the City, in order to develop and implement a behaviour change strategy.