This business case aims to highlight some of the ways companies and investors, in partnership with local and national governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders, can leverage the gender advantage in plastic waste management through working in partnership with women and addressing their needs as informal and formal workers, entrepreneurs, and consumers. It examines first the informal plastic waste management sector, and then the formal sector, identifying the business benefits of understanding and addressing the gender dimensions of each.
The brief is part of a series by Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory’s gender team.
Each brief is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The series includes:
Series: Pursuing Gender Equality Through Infrastructure and Natural Resources.
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