Tag: plastic debris

While several landmark agreements have been put into force over the years to minimize the impact of shipping activity to the natural environment, the vast presence of shipping makes some of these impacts hard to eliminate. Shipping traffic has increased 300% in the past two decades, with some of the world’s busiest shipping routes overlapping with marine life habitats, according to WWF. What does this mean for marine ecosystems?

The "Last Beach Clean Up" and "Beyond Plastics" released a report documenting a recycling rate of 5 to 6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. for 2021.

BIMCO, the largest of the international shipping associations representing shipowners, announced that is has joined the GloLitter Partnerships Project as a strategic partner.

An international group of scientists and experts call for a limit on plastic production to address pollution, arguing that it is critical to tackle the issue right at the source, by regulating, capping, and in the long term phasing out the production of new plastics.

CMA CGM, a French container transportation and shipping company, announced its decision to stop carrying plastic waste on its ship as of June 1st, 2022.

UN entities and the private sector have joined forces to tackle sea-based marine plastic litter through the GloLitter Partnerships Project. 

Wärtsilä along with Grimaldi Group have unveiled a new system that uses exhaust gas scrubber washwater to tackle the amount of microplastics in the world’s oceans.  

During the One Ocean Summit in Brest, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government committed to double the target of the Clean Oceans Initiative.

During the One Ocean Summit Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, announced in a speech that the Group would no longer be transporting any plastic waste aboard its ships.

Risks associated with the transport of chemicals and plastics in ever-larger container ships need to be addressed, say the authors of a study into the impacts on people and the environment of toxic chemicals released during the X-Press Pearl incident.