Tag: Prevented Ocean Plastic

Prevented Ocean Plastic And USAID Open High-Capacity Plastic Collection Centre In Makassar, Indonesia To Mark World Oceans Day

Stuart Mitchell

Last month, on UN World Oceans Day 2024, Prevented Ocean Plastic™ celebrated the grand opening of a new high-capacity waste plastic collection centre in Makassar, Indonesia. It is the seventh centre established by Prevented Ocean Plastic™ since the launch of its mission to open 25 collection centres on coastlines at-risk of plastic pollution worldwide by 2025, with seven more breaking ground. Each year, at least 8 million tonnes of plastics leak into the ocean – the equivalent of one garbage truck being dumped into the ocean every minute. UN World…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic Uses Global Recycling Day To Champion Its Recycling Heroes As It Hits 500 Product Milestone

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ used last months Global Recycling Day to champion the people on the frontlines of the recycling revolution and announces there are now 500 products packaged in its high quality, traceable and certified recycled plastic, made from discarded plastic collected from coastal areas at risk of ocean plastic pollution. Global Recycling Day celebrates the importance of recycling in preserving our precious resources and securing the future of our planet. This year’s theme is #RecyclingHeroes, recognising the people, places and activities championing recycling. Prevented Ocean Plastic™ is celebrating its…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic Stops 2.5 Billion Bottles From Entering The Ocean And Shares Update On Its Mission To Open 25 Plastic Collection Centres By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ has announced it has collected over two and a half billion plastic bottles from coastlines at risk of plastic pollution, to be recycled into high quality, fully traceable rPET. Since the Prevented Ocean Plastic™ programme launched in late 2019, more than 50,000 tonnes of plastic have been prevented from reaching the ocean. Prevented Ocean Plastic™ collected its second billion bottles in less than half the time it took to collect the first billion, a direct result of its expansion of plastic recycling infrastructure worldwide. Prevented Ocean Plastic™…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic Funds University Of Georgia Research To Further Understand How Inland Litter Contributes To Ocean-Bound Plastic

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic and the University of Georgia announce a new research project to broaden our understanding of how litter on land ends up in the ocean. The research entitled ‘Inland Litter Hydrodynamics: Characterizing the Litter Transport during Wet Weather Events in Communities’ will help to create a tool to support stakeholders and community leaders to identify: the scale and type of plastic coming into their community; how it is used and what alternatives are available; how it is managed and what is leaking out into the environment. Community-level data…

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Prevented ocean plastic Africa launches to help THE GLOBAL PROGRAMME stop enough plastic bottles to fill a great pyramid from reaching the ocean in next 18 months

Stuart Mitchell

With COP27 about to begin in Sharm El Sheikh, a major expansion of the award winning Prevented Ocean Plastic programme has been announced. The expansion will save up to 5,000 tonnes of plastic a year – or 220 million bottles – from entering the ocean from pollution in two areas in Africa, including the Swahili Coast and where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. Prevented Ocean Plastic Africa will be a partnership with leading manufacturer Bariq, to create fully traceable, certified, quality recycled plastic. Using a proven model, underpinned with rigorous…

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