Establishment or revision of legal measures, including bans or restriction on specific categories of plastic packaging and/or products considered problematic or unnecessary: Establishment of legal measures including bans or restrictions. Implementation of the ban on single use plastic utensils (cups, straws and cutlery), ban from importation into Grenada as of March 1st 2020 and a ban on the sale to retailers as of September 31st 2020 (Act 9: SRO No 30 of 2019) with a final ban on use in retail food outlets effective March 1st 2021.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns during 2021. Communication specialist hired to support roll out of public awareness and education campaign in 2020 for implementation of Act 9, SRO No 30.

Provision of reliable packaging and/or product information to consumers: Provision of reliable packaging information and product information to consumers throughout the duration of the phased ban on utensils and after the March 1st deadline.

Single-use plastic bags,Single-use plastic cups,Single-use plastic cutlery/tableware,Single-use plastic straws

Provide more details about the selected actions - Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Delivery of awareness raising and education campaign will continue using material prepared by the Communication Specialist. Capacity Building of importers, suppliers, supermarkets and restaurants as well as customs and border control officials will continue for the next annual cycle.

Provision of reliable packaging and/or product information to consumers: Provision of reliable packaging information and product information to importers and to consumers is planned to continue throughout the next annual cycle.

Promotion of innovation in packaging or product design to drive elimination of problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging and/or products: Exploration of waste to product opportunities on island and net to net recycling on island.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Multiple stakeholders were targeted with TV and Radio jingles, flyers, and call in programs to discuss the issues surrounding the land fill in Grenada and in the sister islands.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Multiple meetings were held with Grenada Hotel and Tourism stakeaholders on reducing the need for single-use plastic packaging in hotel rooms and/or hotel products

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Outreach to the 52 main stakeholders including importers, brokers, supermarket Managers and restaurant Managers/owners in the tri-island state to be carried out to share on the ban in place and on viable alternatives, including reusable alternatives.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Continued collaboration with the Grenada Hotel and Tourism sector on ways to reduce packaging routinely used in guest rooms

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: An updated fact sheet was prepared and shared in March 2021 for use in online virtual “clinics” offered to all but targeting importers, brokers and supermarket chains on the regulation and on compliant alternatives and the steps to ensure compliance; Updated public educational material was prepared and circulated to businesses electronically (due to COVID in person visits were not well supported); A capacity building booklet was updated for use in training customs officers on the legislation.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: A Waste Characterization study was undertaken and is being shared in a participatory manner via focus group discussion and capacity building validation workshops on island.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Continue online and in person targeted public education and awareness through various modes.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Continue to work on the net to net and waste to product business models and support the data capture needed to complete the feasibility assessments.

None reported

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Environment and Grenadas Solid Waste Management Authority GSWMA plan to deliver public awareness and education campaigns throughout the year linking consumer choices (choosing to refuse plastic) and anti-litter campaigns.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Multiple meetings with Grenada Hotel and Tourism, Ports Authority, Fisheries Division, Fishermen Co-Ops and other non Govt organisations were held to brainstorm ideas and promote partnerships for implementation of Act 9 and its regulations. Out of this came the selection of net-to-net recycling and the waste to product as two key areas for further feasibility assessments to be done for possible business models.The next cycle will be used to continued work on net recycling and waste to product.

None reported

Promotion of collaboration with private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Through the plastic waste to product business model feasibility assessment, support for recycled plastics can be captured.

Billboards will be mounted at the international airport welcoming visitors to a plastic handle bag free environment and promoting the use of alternatives to single use handle bags and single use plastic utensils.

Billboards will be mounted at the international airport welcoming visitors to a plastic handle bag free environment and promoting the use of alternatives to single use handle bags and single use plastic utensils; findings of the waste characterization study will be shared for follow up action; public education and capacity building of key stakeholders (importers, suppliers and vendors) will continue to support use of viable alternatives.

Ministry/department of Environment / Sustainable Development / Natural Resources / Energy,Ministry/department of Tourism / Culture / Sports/ .

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Impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic: Stakeholders have become exhausted with online / virtual platforms and so we have seen a decrease in participation in focus group discussions and online meetings - as a result we have had to move back to radio talk shows and community announcements on TV which are both costly (for air time) and more difficult to carry out routinely as radio slots require a script to be prepared and for a number of topics related to the ban on single use plastics to be prepared before hand.

Inadequate information and data for implementation, specify below: Support needed to develop new materials for communication of key messages in a local context - both physical billboards, electroic adds and cartoon videos as well as social media coverage and soliciting support of influencers.

Limited technical and institutional capacity for implementation: Limited capacity on island and within the diaspora to support implementation of key actions e.g. implementation of the stakeholder engagement plan; ;capacity preparation of quick reference guides for building capacity of local law enforcement and Govt officers with responsibility for implementing regulations related to ban on single use plastics.

Financial issues, specify below: Support to hire technical specialists and consultants to support preparation of key guidance documents and key capacity building documents and for supporting the preparation of key policy documents."