Tag: plastics

The Australian Government has launched a Ghost Nets Initiative to address the issue of ghost nets and marine debris littering northern Australian waters and beaches.

As IMO’s MEPC 76 came to an end, Gard Club highlights that plastics in the ocean remains a global problem and requires action from all.

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

Danish company ReSea Project, involved in cleaning rivers and oceans in Indonesia, became the second organization in the world to be certified to DNV GL’s Chain of Custody standard, built to assure the traceability and integrity of plastic recovered from the hydrosphere. 

From the September 19th, World Clean-up Day, the ‘Nul-o-Plastic’, designed by Envisan, will get rid of the historical pollution in the Galgeschoor nature reserve in the port of Antwerp. 

Businesses can now take significant steps to manage plastic waste and its impact on the environment, thanks to the launch of the world’s first best-practice standard for Responsible Plastic Management (RPM).

In light of the global issue of marine plastic litter, IMO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) shake their hands and inked an agreement  in order to prevent and reduce marine plastic litter coming from shipping and fisheries.

Following India's ban on single use plastic from onboard vessels, the Liberian Maritime Authority reminds all Liberia-flagged vessels sailing to India of what to keep in mind, from which single use plastics are acceptable, to the importance of implementing a Ship Execution Plan (SEP).

NYK signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) to use a ship to collect and analyze microplastics in oceans worldwide, in order to create a solution to marine plastic pollution. This is the world’s first initiative between a company and a research institute to carry out a survey of microplastics over a wide range of the ocean.

The second phase of Caladan Oceanic's 2020 deep-diving expeditions has been completed as the sub pilot and explorer Victor Vescovo and Prince Albert II of Monaco dived at the bottom of Calypso Deep. The dive also revealed that the human contamination has affected the deepest point in the Mediterranean sea.