Tag: Plastic waste
John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic...
By John Mitchell in Suva
Fiji got to celebrate World Oceans Day this week -- a day when our conscience gets the occasional prick on...
Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Two school girls from East Java, Aeshnina Azzahra (alias Nina), 12, and Zahira Zade, 11, have sent hand-written protest letters to...
Vanuatu walks the talk – and becomes first country to ban...
By Jilda Shem in Port Vila
It's a Pacific island nation that has beaten the global community across the finish line with Vanuatu officially becoming...
Waste colonialism and plastic pollution targeted in NZ ‘pure’ campaign
By Sylvia C. Frain in Auckland
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s status as a “wasteful country” is one of the targets of the PURE 2018 tour launched in...