Pacific nations unite to combat escalating crisis of plastic pollution, emphasising the dire impacts on oceans, health, environment, economy, and cultures while advocating for international treaties and collective stakeholder involvement
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Solomon Islands implements landmark ban on single-use Plastics
Solomon Islands implements landmark ban on single-use plastics to make the country cleaner and more sustainable, allowing a six-month grace period for existing stockpiles, with penalties starting after 1 March 2024
Factsheets to support Pacific negotiations for Plastics Treaty launched
A series of factsheets were launched at the 31st SPREP Meeting of Officials to support Pacific Island negotiators in the INC process to negotiate an International Legally Binding Instrument to combat plastic pollution
Solomon Islands single-use plastic ban regulation to be enforced on 01 September
Under the regulation, five categories of single-use plastic products are to be banned
Combating plastic pollution in Fiji through Artivism
Youth centric project, POLYP has emerged as a force in the battle to keep the Pacific clean from marine litter and plastic pollution through youth artivism activities and coastal clean-up campaigns
Greening the 2023 International Va’a Federation World Distance Championship
The partnership to build public education and awareness of plastic pollution and the single-use plastic issue in Samoa
New app helps young people turn tide on plastic pollution
A new app ‘Tide Turners’ encourages young people to switch to reusable products and go plastic-free where possible that can help stem the flow of plastic into the world’s ocean
Paris delivers mandate for zero draft as momentum builds towards plastic treaty
The global community is one step closer towards a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution whilst Pacific countries continue to advocate for their national priorities to manage plastic waste
Kiribati calls for a strong global commitment to upstream measures to solve the plastic crisis
Kiribati called for mandatory upstream measures to address 9.7 tonnes of plastic waste generated every day accumulating in landfills and the Kiribati environment
Solomon Islands calls for global plastic production reduction, plans national plastic ban
Solomon Islands is committed to having in place regulations for banning the import, sale and usage of certain single-use plastics as plastic bags alone make up 12 percent of the main landfill in its capital