Tag: plastic debris

Internet’s influencers and 600,000 donors are celebrating the success of #TeamSeas, a crowdfunding campaign to raise $30M by 1 January in order to remove 30M pounds of trash from oceans, rivers and beaches.

New funds will support projects to tackle biofouling and marine plastic litter and the designing of long-term programme to help cut ship emissions.

Jamaica was selected as one of ten Lead Partnering Countries globally in an IMO and Food and Agriculture Organization supported project.

Djibouti is the latest country to benefit from a national training workshop on implementation and enforcement of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).

Senegal has put in place a ban on the import of plastic waste, with the authorities taking tough action on fines, the North P&I Club warned. 

With discussions at the IMO MEPC meeting on sea-based sources of marine plastic delayed until the end of the year, BIMCO is focusing on how to reduce plastic footprint.

The IMO's GloLitter Partnerships Project has been granted a one year extension by the initial funding body.

30 countries from across the oceans joined forces to tackle marine plastic litter under the GloLitter Partnerships Project.

Marusumi Paper and MOL will install a microplastic collection device, on a newbuilding woodchip carrier that will be delivered in 2022.

Port of Rotterdam along with several plastics companies, shake hands and agreed to set up a special collaborative alliance: the ‘Rotterdam Clean Sweep Taskforce’.