We have entered an ‘Age of Plastic’ where plastics may outweigh fish in the oceans by 2050.
One of the most densely populated regions of the world, the Northwest Pacific, is the global hotspot of marine litter and microplastics pollution. Northwest Pacific Action Plan (or NOWPAP), one of the eighteen Regional Seas Programmes of the UN Environment, has been responding to the threat of marine litter in the region since 2005.
Through a regional framework of cooperation – the NOWPAP Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter – China, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russia are working on the monitoring, reduction, and removal of marine litter and microplastics along the coasts and in seas of the NW Pacific.
Original source: UN Environment
Published on 06 March 2019
