Tag: plastic debris

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.

To detect and clean floating debris up as quickly as possible, Port of Antwerp is deploying drones.

Two new studies from the global GloLitter Partnerships project, which aims to reduce sea-based marine plastic litter, address the loss of fishing gear, which adds to the growing quantity of plastic waste at sea and on beaches.

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.