Samoa Has Become The Latest Pacific Island Country To Enforce A Ban On Single-Use Plastics In A Bid To Address The Growing Issue Of Plastic Pollution. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Samoa Has Become The Latest Pacific Island Country To Enforce A Ban On Single-Use Plastics In A Bid To Address The Growing Issue Of Plastic Pollution. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Plastic packaging is one of the worst environmental crises our planet faces today. Many forms of plastic packaging are single-use and difficult to recycle or are not eligible for recycling in many places. Click on the link below to read the full article
The garbage catcher has been floating in the Pacific since its highly anticipated launch out of San Francisco in September, but it has yet to produce the results anticipated. Click on the link below to read the full article.
A trash collection device deployed three months ago to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii is not collecting any trash. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Here in the Pacific Islands, the ocean is life. For thousands of years it has provided food, dictated the weather, and served as the transportation system for our people. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Marine litter scientists from the UK kick-off work with partners in the South Pacific this week to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article.
A new project that made its way into the Pacific Ocean to tackle the growing problem of oceanic plastic pollution has finally arrived at the Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive flotilla of floating debris and plastic. Click on the link below to read the full article.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA), has prepared this Pacific Marine Litter Action Plan (MLAP). The primary focus of MLAP is marine sourced litter, but it also covers terrestrial based marine litter point sources as outlined in the Cleaner Pacific 2025.
Our goal is to make ocean-bound plastic a commodity for the future, and we want to take initiatives to prevent plastic from ending up in the ocean in the first place...Click on the link to read the full article.