On February 1, 2024, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) organized a one-day hybrid workshop entitled "Cost of Inaction and Action for Plastic Pollution" at Sukosol Hotel, Bangkok. The main objective of this workshop was to advance awareness of the costs of inaction and promote proactive measures against plastic pollution in the region, aligning with the United Nations Sustainability vision. During the workshop, Professor C. Visvanathan, Lecturer from Civil and Environmental Engineering was invited as a panelist in the session titled "Identification of Actions across the life cycle." He was primarily tasked with discussing the role of "Extended Producer Responsibility" in the plastic life cycle. Later, he served as one of the main key presenters in the session on “Roadmap to Institutionalize the Assessment,” where he presented on the current practices and challenges in the institutionalization of data collection, analysis, and reporting on plastic pollution in various countries.