The IMO has been advancing efforts to ensure the safe transportation of plastic pellets on vessels that can damage the marine environment when released into the sea. Meeting from 19–23 February at the IMO Headquarters based in London, the organization’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (abbreviated the PPR 11) agreed on draft recommendations for the transportation of plastic pellets by the sea with some draft guidelines associated with the clean-up of plastic pellet leaks from...