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Plastic Drawdown: A rapid assessment tool for developing national responses to plastic pollution when data availability is limited, as demonstrated in the Maldives

Plastic Drawdown: A rapid assessment tool for developing national responses to plastic pollution when data availability is limited, as demonstrated in the Maldives

by Esther | Mar 17, 2026

The Maldives is uniquely vulnerable to plastic pollution. A quarter of its GDP (24.5%) comes from tourism, and a further fifth (18%) from fisheries, both affected by plastic pollution. With a population of 450,000 people spread over 347 inhabited islands, it also has...

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