Located along Central America’s Caribbean coastline, Belize has long grappled with a growing plastic pollution crisis that is cluttering its urban spaces, clogging its waterways and damaging the fragile marine ecosystems that anchor its key tourism industry. Today, the small nation is facing renewed calls to address one of the most ubiquitous, yet previously overlooked, sources of this waste: single-use plastic water pouches. A coalition of 40 diverse organizations, ranging from conservation nonprofits and local universities to tourism industry groups and sustainable businesses, is formally urging Belize’s government to implement a structured three-year phase-out ban that would fully remove these cheap, disposable pouches from the national market. The coalition’s proposal comes on the heels of on-the-ground data and first-hand observations confirming that plastic items, single-use pouches in particular, make up the majority of Belize’s unmanaged waste.