By Agnes Alpuerto

Sometimes the most productive movements to effect social change start at the grassroots level and permeate upwards. That certainly is the plan of the parties driving the creation of a university student competition that aims to identify and scale solutions to help address the plastics waste problem—initially in India and across Asia, but potentially, they hope,on a global scale.

By Gregers Moller

SWAT (The Solid Waste Management Association, Thailand) is launching their Plastic Footprint Reduction Project under the framework of the United Nations Environment Programme’s SEA circular project, initiated by the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), and supported by the Government of Sweden to reduce plastic pollution in our ocean. This will be using the Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP), powered by Ocean Recovery Alliance.

By Bob Grace

Sometimes the most productive movements to effect social change start at the grassroots level and permeate upwards. That certainly is the plan of the parties driving the creation of a university student competition that aims to identify and scale solutions to help address the plastics waste problem—initially in India and across Asia, but potentially, they hope,on a global scale.

By Ocean Recovery Alliance

“The tourism industry is a significant information vector, education opportunity and engagement network for reducing plastic pollution at scale, both via the operations of the participants, and in beautifying the communities they serve, so we are excited to be sharing our PDP methodology with companies who are on the road to greatly reducing their plastic footprints,” said Douglas Woodring, Founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance and the PDP.