7/14/2023 0 Comments The ocean cleanup project![]() This new partnership comes at a critical time as negotiations for an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, are taking shape. Slat’s first target is the North Pacific’s infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Its longer-term goal is to rid all oceans of 90 per cent of floating plastic by 2040. Founded in 2013 by then-18-year-old Boyan Slat, the nonprofit has raised more than 35-million to clean up the five gyres, convergence zones in the world’s oceans where plastic tends to concentrate. “We believe that, through this alliance, we can help accelerate the deployment of our technologies to eliminate plastics from the oceans and rivers, as well as support broader policies aimed at waste management and reducing plastic pollution.” The Ocean Cleanup aims to remove 50 per cent of the GPGP every five years. “After our valuable experience working with local UNDP teams to tackle riverine plastic pollution in the Dominican Republic, we are excited to partner with UNDP to further promote sustainable ocean health,” said The Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat. “This alliance is an important step to curb the flow of plastic pollution into oceans and rivers but also to raise awareness, support sound policy making, and trigger behavioral change along the entire plastic value chain.” Now that The Ocean Cleanup project has started towing its first boom-system to the garbage patch in the north Pacific Ocean, we again receive a lot of. “Eliminating plastic pollution in all its forms is key to protecting human and planetary health and safeguarding sustainable development,” said Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator. Partnerships play a critical role in addressing this complex global challenge. Plastic pollution poses an existential threat to the health of the world’s oceans and the billions of people who depend on marine resources for food and income. The goal of the partnership is to reduce leakages of plastics into marine ecosystems by boosting policies and behavior change aimed at advancing sound plastic waste management systems and reducing overall plastic pollution, and accelerating the deployment of interception technologies in rivers to end marine plastic pollution. The investment would support these goals: Converting plastic waste to energy. New York, NY – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Ocean Cleanup today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on eliminating plastic pollution in oceans and rivers around the globe. The DFC aims to catalyze 2.5 billion in investment for infrastructure projects that will reduce the discharge of plastic waste and marine debris into oceans in developing countries. The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, is developing and scaling technologies to rid the worlds oceans of plastic.
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