BACKGROUND With support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), IUCN launched the Plastic Waste Free Islands project in 2019. The purpose of the project is to demonstrate effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - three from the Pacific and three from the Caribbean. In cooperation with key stakeholders from governments, private sector and civil society, as well as local men and women, the project will generate and demonstrate demand-responsive solutions to plastic waste incorporating policy, business operations, and citizen behavior changes. Evidence and lessons learned will be packaged into a scalable ‘blueprint’ for use beyond the initial six targeted SIDS; key regional bodies will be equipped