The Marine Debris community aims to contribute to tackling the challenge that marine debris poses to the marine biosphere and, in many ways, to humans. To achieve this mission, the community assesses related societal knowledge needs, assesses existing technologies and identifies needs for new technologies, approaches and best practices, utilizes Earth observations and models to meet those knowledge needs, and assesses options that could mitigate existing marine debris or prevent future debris entering the ocean.If you are concerned about the plastics and other marine debris in the ocean, join us and help finding pathways to limit what goes into the ocean and to extract form the ocean what is already there.
[Sep. 16, 2022] Ratings and Mappings: On the Participatory Modeling Floor a rating of priority actions and several mappings of stakeholders and rules are open for Place4Us users to contribute...
MarineDebris VCC News
[Nov. 20, 2024] Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) is the biggest Plastic Waste Producer: In her article “Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’” published today in the Guardian, Sandra Laville reports that the five fossil fuel members of the AEPW, ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies and ChevronPhillips, are not only some of the largest plastic producers, they also produced 1,000 times more than they promised to remove from the environment. Another article by Emma Howard also published today in the Guardian points out that the AEPW works with partners in the developing world and that a featured facility in Bali “was swamped with garbage from an adjacent landfill and struggling with broken machinery and poor finances.”
[Sep. 24, 2024] Where does the fast fashion end up?: Fleur Britten went to Ghana to find out. In her article published today in The Guardian she describes her experience of beach cleaning in Ghana and shows how much of fast fashion ends up on these beaches in Ghana. She concludes that the number of clothes being produced in the global north is soaring and poisoning poorer countries.
