Tag: microplastics

The IMO Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) held its 10th session from April 24 to 28, 2023.

The latest guidance on national planning and implementation issued by the GloLitter Partnerships project has been published. The two newly launched guides are designed to help countries in their efforts to prevent and reduce sea-based marine plastic litter (SBMPL).  

A new guide to support countries to put in place port reception facilities to receive marine plastic litter from ships was published yesterday by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The Ocean Cleanup has now officially removed more than 100,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).

Ocean plastic pollution was a focus at the recent UN oceans conference, which issued a declaration in support of an earlier decision by the UN Environment Assembly to start negotiations for a global plastics treaty. IMO also participated in the conference, highlighting its commitment to addressing climate change ocean issues for a more sustainable future.

Columbia Ship Management has joined forces with the Cyprus-based AKTI Project and Research Centre to support research into the detection and analysis of coastal microplastics in waters off the coast of Cyprus.

DNV, in collaboration with the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, finds plastic materials across all marine sediment and animal samples in Norwegian fjords and offshore areas.

MOL and Miura announced the development of new centrifugal-type microplastic (MP) collection device, which can collect MPs while a vessel is underway.

Mr. Jens Jaeger, IUMI, highlights the spill risk of plastic resin pellets, so called “nurdles”, and work at the IMO to mitigate this risk.

Raising awareness of and combatting ocean pollution caused by micro-plastics, bio-fouling, chemicals and macro-organisms were the focus of the most recent meeting of the IMO's GloFouling Partnership Project's Global Industry Alliance (GIA) for Marine Biosafety.