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Subject Waste management - Plastic pollution - Oceania
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A Global Plastics Treaty Guided by Indigenous Pacific Wisdom - Factsheet

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The Global plastics treaty (GPT) mandates the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to create binding rules based on the best available science, traditional knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local knowledge systems

Plastic Removal Technologies 101 - Factsheet

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Plastic removal technologies (PRTs) promise to improve environmental quality by removing plastics from the environment but they can also threaten biodiversity. Almost no environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are done on PRTs.

Financial Mechanism Options - Factsheet

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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To deliver an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) to end plastic pollution will require mobilising substantial financial resources from a variety of sources to achieve its objective. This may include leveraging new multilateral finance from developed (donor) countries developing (recipient) countries party to the new agreement, accessing existing multilateral and bilateral finance and ensuring flows of private sector finance.

Abandoned, Lost and Otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear - Factsheet

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Sea-based marine plastic pollution is roughly estimated to comprise around 20% of all marine plastic pollution and represents a major threat to marine ecosystem. However, sea-based marine plastic pollution has not been sufficiently addressed to date representing a significant gap in global governance.

Industrialised Fishing Nations largely Contribute to Floating Plastic Pollution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Biodiversity Conservation, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Lebreton, Laurent

Peytavin, Axel

Royer, Sarah-Jeanne

et al

The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic-objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin.

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