Tag: marine plastic pollution

• Wednesday, June 18th 2025 - 08:15 UTC

  UK to introduce legislation on High Seas Treaty by end of year

  

  The UK Government will introduce a bill by the end of the year, to enable ratification of the BBNJ Agreement (sometimes referred to as the High Seas Treaty), the Marine Minister has announced.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  Pilot whale dies in Thailand after swallowing eighty plastic bags

  

  A pilot whale has died off southern Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags, Thai marine officials say. The whale vomited five bags during a vain attempt by conservation officials to save it in a canal in Songkhla province.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Tons of frozen micro-plastics found trapped in the floating ice of the Arctic

  

  Record levels of micro-plastics have been found trapped inside sea ice floating in the Arctic. Ice cores gathered across the Arctic Ocean reveal micro-plastics at concentrations two to three times higher than previously recorded. As sea ice melts with climate change, the plastic will be released back into the water, with unknown effects on wildlife, say German scientists.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Plastic crisis: divert foreign aid to dumpsites in developing countries

  

  By Christine Cole (*) - Plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem that is finally getting the attention it deserves, thanks to Blue Plan II. It makes headline news almost every week – and famous figures such as the Pope, Prince Charles, Dame Ellen MacArthur and Sir David Attenborough have all joined the debate.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 01:26 UTC

  UN Environment Assembly pledges to stop plastics seeping into the oceans

  

  The world's environment ministers have pledged to stop plastics seeping into the planet's oceans in a step “towards a pollution-free planet”. Delegates at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, have called for a radical change in how goods are consumed and produced to tackle the world's rubbish problem.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 01:51 UTC

  Prince Charles Sustainability charity in Chile for ocean international conference

  

  The Director of The Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit (ISU) which has been set up to reflect The Prince of Wales’ vision and aims in the area of sustainable development, Justin Mundy is in Chile to participate in Our Ocean international conference.