Considering the need for action and a lack of research on the topic in the African context, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) in conjunction with the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) employed BlackForest Solutions GmbH (BFS) to produce a sccoping report to establish the current level of plastic waste pollution transported by the Nile. A holistic approach was adopted to develop this report by considering all ten Nile Basin countries. Six countries were selected as case study countries where local experts were selected and deployed to collect primary data and utilize a waste flow mapping tool known as the Waste Flow Diagram (WFD). Egypt, as the country from which the Nile River flows into the Mediterrean Sea, is of particular relevance when researching the plastic pollution of the Nile and the flow into marine environment. As Egypt has frozen its participation in technical work but is still an NBI State, it was therefore agreed with NBI to prepare a separate report to complete the topic of plastic pollution of the Nile River.