By Joe Brock and Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Australia will allow plastic trash to be shipped overseas and burned as fuel under a law introduced last year that banned…
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CMA CGM to halt overseas transport of plastic waste
During the One Ocean Summit last week, container shipping company CMA CGM committed to stop transporting plastic waste overseas beginning in June.
The Marseille, France-based company shipped approximately 50,000 twenty-foot equivalent units of plastic waste from developed countries to Southeast Asia in 2021, CMA CGM Group told FreightWaves. That adds up to about 500,000 tons of plastic waste sent to countries that didn’t produce it.
Though many companies that produce and use single-use plastic...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cma-cgm-to-halt-overseas-transport-of-plastic-waste
CMA CGM to Stop Carrying Plastic Waste on Its Ships
French shipping group CMA CGM will stop transporting plastic waste aboard its ships beginning June 1 to help curb ocean pollution. CMA CGM said it currently carries the equivalent of…
https://gcaptain.com/cma-cgm-to-stop-carrying-plastic-waste-on-its-ships/
Suspicions Of Sabotage Proliferate At Most Attempts To Solve Greece’s Aquifers Problems
By Alexander Clapp and Peter Schwartzstein(Bloomberg) –Alexandros Petropoulos pauses as he surveys the miles of pipeline arrayed in front of him, reflecting on what it took to get here. It’s late 2020,…
IMO and Saudi Arabia sign partnership deals as part of net-zero drive
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has signed three partnership agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support the preparation of a new global project that targets ship-based…
Drone Navy Is Rising Against Ocean Plastics
By Laura Millan Lombrana (Bloomberg) Floating drones inspired by whale sharks and four-wheeled robots that resemble the Mars rover are among the latest inventions designed to remove litter from the…
A New Ocean Pollution Threat: Face Masks
By Peter Blaza (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic is adding a new unwelcome element to sea pollution off the town of Bauan, a popular dive site in the Philippines’ Batangas…
Collection Of Marine Litter With Autonomous Robots
Collecting litter from the seafloor is a highly complex, yet ever more necessary matter. The SeaClear project aims to develop an autonomous robotic system for searching, identifying, classifying and collecting waste in the water column and on the seafloor in coastal areas.
Cosmin Delea, Research Associate “Maritime Technologies and Biomimetics” at the Hamburg-based Fraunhofer Centre for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML), underlines the idea of using autonomous robots in the form of unmanned...
https://mfame.guru/collection-of-marine-litter-with-autonomous-robots/
This Sailing Yacht Feeds On Ocean Plastic
By Lucien Libert (Reuters) A French ocean adventurer and his team have designed a yacht that he says can scoop up plastic garbage to stop it blighting the world’s oceans,…
Big Oil’s Big Ocean Plastic Project Is Dead In The Water
By Joe Brock, John Geddie and Saurabh Sharma (Reuters) – A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words “Renew Oceans,” sit rusting outside an…