In 2019, with support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), IUCN launched the Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project, as part of its global Close the Plastic Tap Programme. PWFI was a three-year project implemented in six islands in the Caribbean and Pacific regions, namely Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa in the Pacific region and Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Grenada in the Caribbean region. The project sought to promote island circular economy and to demonstrate effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage from Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Amardeep led a project team that undertook waste data collection and material flow modelling for all countries and created plastic generation, disposal and leakage profiles that was used for business process modelling, economic impact studies and downstream market development work by collaborators of the project.
