Ocean plastic pollution Archives - Seas at Risk

Ocean plastic pollution

Member's News

Seas At Risk’s membership grows in strength with The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature as newest member

2 February 2023

Close-up shows plastic pellets on the beach.

Member's News

EU needs binding, sweeping measures to stop plastic pellet pollution at the source, not surface-level ‘Clean Sweep’

8 November 2022

Multicoloured microplastics are strewn in the sand at a beach.

General News

Seas At Risk encourages the EU to adopt draft microplastics regulation

27 October 2022

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Press Releases

Phasing out single-use plastics: How are EU countries performing?

21 September 2022

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Publications

Single Use Plastics Directive – Implementation assessment report

21 September 2022

Publications

NGOs’ Letter to the REACH Committee on the Commissions’ proposal to restrict Microplastics

19 September 2022

Seas At Risk, together with Rethink Plastic alliance and the Break Free From Plastic movement, jointly wrote a letter to the REACH Committee to applaud the Commissions’ proposal to...

Multimedia

Video: There is no ocean B. What we must do to restore our blue planet.

6 July 2022

Press Releases

Ocean Base Camp: an open space for civil society during the UN Ocean Conference

23 June 2022

Press Releases

EU makes poor progress on milestones to deliver a healthy ocean by 2030

14 June 2022

Publications

Blue Manifesto Assessment 2021

13 June 2022

Publications

Blue Manifesto Assessment 2021

13 June 2022

Member's News

Pellets: so small by their size, and yet so huge in the damage they cause

29 April 2022

Publications

How EU Policy can Tackle Microplastic Pollution

2 February 2022

Multimedia

Video: IMO to prevent plastic pollution from ships

22 November 2021

Publications

Infographic: plastic and microplastic pollution from ships

19 November 2021

General News

Finally a blue lining at COP26 but insufficient action for the climate

19 November 2021

Publications

IMO submission – Action plan to address marine plastic litter from ships

18 November 2021

General News

Microplastics and climate change: our ocean needs bold decisions

29 October 2021