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UNEP celebrates plastics progress on World Ocean Day

08/06/2018
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has marked World Ocean Day, June 8, by celebrating progress in freeing the seas from plastic pollution. The Nairobi-based agency said: “Nations are showing an unprecedented commitment to healthy, thriving oceans and seas, free from plastic pollution. With eight new countries having joined UNEP’s Clean Seas campaign in the past week, Clean Seas is now the largest global compact for combatting marine litter, with commitments from 51 nations covering 62% of the world’s coastlines.”

India, one of the most recent signatories, made a commitment to address plastic pollution upstream by banning all single-use plastics by 2022. It pledged to address the problem downstream too, committing to carry out a full coastal audit, in partnership with Clean Seas. As part of its commitment, Nigeria has said it will open 26 plastic waste recycling plants.

Other countries who have pledged recently to step up their protection of the ocean and their coastlines include Argentina, Cote d’Ivoire, United Arab Emirates, Honduras, Guyana and Vanuatu.

“There is now more momentum than ever to beat plastic pollution and protect the oceans from the tide of disposable plastic,” said Erik Solheim, head of UNEP, in a statement on World Ocean Day.

UNEP launched its Clean Seas campaign in February 2017 with the aim of engaging governments, the general public, civil society and the private sector in the fight against marine plastic litter.


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