This regional dialogue will serve as a platform to disseminate the key knowledge and lessons gained from the research, and the implications to future policies and strategies that will benefit to sustainable practices of plastic waste management. The dialogue will also feature an engaging panel session amongst key stakeholders representing the industry and consumers to exchange views and insights on the role of businesses in advancing circularity, approaches to handhold SMEs in the journey and how the sector should prepare and support the impending international legal instrument on plastic pollution.