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Bridging the Gap: Understanding Stakeholders in Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution requires varied interventions tailored to geographical areas and stakeholders’ positions in the plastic lifecycle. Multiple stakeholders, each with unique roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, are involved in the process. So, how can we better understand this system to start solving the problem? The key lies in a deeper comprehension of these stakeholders, their interactions, roles, and responsibilities. Only then can we come together, acknowledge our respective parts, and collectively develop effective solutions for plastic pollution.

Solving Plastic Pollution: Everyone is a stakeholder, but not every stakeholder is equal.

The plastic lifecycle involves multiple stakeholders with different roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities. By working together and understanding our respective roles, we can develop effective solutions to plastic pollution and create a more sustainable future.

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Trees & Seas Film-Activism Festival Returns for its 3rd Year from September 1-10, 2023

Uniting Communities and the Environment Through the Power of Film

The highly anticipated 3rd annual Trees & Seas film-activism festival is back and better than ever, continuing its growth and fostering sustainable community progress in their own backyards, ultimately contributing to a collective global impact against plastic pollution.

Plastic Oceans International Participates in Our Ocean 2023 With a Side Event About the Impacts of Fishing Gear

This year’s conference brought together more than 600 global ocean experts and generated over 340 ocean action commitments worth $19 billion.

The Our Ocean conference is a yearly event to draw international attention to the serious threats facing the world’s ocean, commiting to concrete action around the globe to support marine conservation and sustainable development. Read More

Our relationship with plastic: it's complicated

Our Relationship With Plastics: It’s Complicated

In honor of the month of February, I’ve just changed my relationship status with plastics to, “it’s complicated”. It’s the best I’ve felt about plastics in a long time. Here’s why.

We must be willing to accept that not everything is black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. Quite a bit of grey area exists within many of these more complex situations, and you know why? Because it’s extremely complex.

Henequén, The Rope That Changed a Continent

Before Plastics, The Yucatan Peninsula Was Home To Globally Exported Natural Fibers

Stand on the pier in the historic port of Sisal, surrounded by the impossible blue of the ocean, and there is nothing to remind the passing visitor of the vast industry that ruled what was once a major commercial hub. Today, Sisal is a sleepy little town which has forgotten its historic purpose, its citizens harboring a vague memory of their ancestors and the historic wealth of the town, in excess of a century ago.

Environmental Journalism: A Genre of Writing Lost In Its Own Crisis

Today’s most urgent writing becomes marginalized by failing to honestly question its purpose

“Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months.”

BBC headline, 24th July 2019.

“Only 11 Years Left to Prevent Irreversible Damage from Climate Change.”

United Nations Press Release, 28th March 2019

“Only Ten Years Left to Fix Climate Emergency.”

World Economic Forum Press Release, 20th February 2020

This last headline doubles down still further in the body of the piece, where WEF president Børge Brende goes on to explain that we only have “a very small window and if we don’t use that window in the next ten years we will be moving around deckchairs on the Titanic.”

@BambuuBrush: Using Plastics As a Gateway to Sustainability

Trees & Seas Partner Uses Production and Sale of Sustainable Toothbrushes to Fund Impact Projects

847 is a number that Tommie Eaton – co-founder of @BambuuBrush toothbrushes – is unlikely to forget: “It’s what we started the business with. We weren’t wealthy, and everything was done from raw passion.”

£847, the equivalent of about USD$1000. Or, in other words, a spit, a lick of shoeshine, and a whole lot of gumption and drive. Which, given the current success of @BambuuBrush, the product and its values, goes to show that starting numbers are just that, a place at the start line, and nothing more.

Diverse Voices in Environmental Storytelling: Wilfredo Benjamin

Afro-Dominican Leads Social and Environmental Activism in Samaná, Dominican Republic

Wilfredo Benjamin is an environmentalist, activist, teacher, explorer, and promoter of Afro-Dominican culture and history. As part of our efforts at Plastic Oceans International to tell the stories of underrepresented socio environmental voices, we are proud to present this interview with Benjamin, conducted by Managing Editor, Jon Bonfiglio.

Natracare’s Values-Driven Approach to Plastic-Free Menstruation Products Is Creating Change Worldwide

Solutions-based Company Empowering People Who Menstruate by Supporting Them in Making Sustainable Decisions About Their Bodies

Susie Hewson – founder of Natracare – and creator of the world’s first commercial organic cotton tampon, knows there is a problem.

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