Plastic waste pollution in the world’s oceans and waterways has reached crisis levels, degrading the health of marine ecosystems and affecting the people and economies that they support. The South Asia Region is the third largest contributor of plastic waste globally, with 8 percent of the region’s solid waste composed of plastic (Kaza et al. 2018).Three-fourths of the South Asia Region’s waste ends up in the environment through open dumping. At current rates, the amount of waste generated across South Asia is expected to increase from 265 million tons per year in 2020 to 560 million tons by 2050 (Kaza, Shrikanth, and Chaudhary 2021). Mismanaged waste has serious repercus￾sions, especially for under-resourced communities, and solutions are urgently needed. In recent years, growing awareness about the negative impacts of plastic pollution has spurred a groundswell of investment to improve plastic scrap recovery and transform waste management systems in the South Asia Region and around the world. At the same time, the plastics waste sector presents a growing business opportunity for companies and investors1 . While low prices of virgin plastics can undermine recycled products, there is currently a supply shortage of recycled plastics for consumer package relative to demand from sustainability-forward companies and investors and growing regulatory pressure from governments to decrease use of virgin material2. Investments into the plas￾tics waste management sector thus offer both prospects for commercial upside, and opportuni￾ties to improve human and environmental health.