IUCN's Climate Change Mitigation and Risk Reduction (CCMRR) Programme recently hosted three half a day pre- inception consultation meetings in Suva, Fiji; Apia, Samoa and in Port Vila, Vanuatu to introduce the Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project to a number of key stakeholders in the month
The Energy Department is launching a program to partner with the private sector in developing technologies to recycle plastic and keep waste out of rivers, oceans, and landfills.
Coca-Cola has been named the world’s largest polluter of plastics for the second year in a row, according to an audit conducted by Break Free From Plastic. The environmental justice group asked 72,541 volunteers in 51 countries to collect plastic waste.
With virtually no predators, Midway is a haven for many species of seabirds and is home to the largest colony of albatross in the world. But Midway is also at the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast area of floating plastic collected by circulating oceanic currents.
The Ramu nickel mine in Papua New Guinea's Madang province has been found to have mismanaged toxic waste it dumps into the sea. The provincial government engaged an oil spill response consultant from Sweden to investigate recent discolouring of local waters and deaths of fish species.
A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high seas for the first time.
Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world.
SPREP would like to call for tenders from qualified and experienced legal consultants who can offer their services to conduct a legislative review and assessment.
The National Environment Service has hit back at claims they told accommodation owners to throw rubbish back into the ocean.
The Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, Trevor Evans MP, was today in Samoa to meet with representatives from 21 Pacific Island Nations, New Zealand, the United States, France and the United Kingdom to discuss the key environmental issues facing the region.
