Cold Water Islands Project
Surfers Against Sewage and Parley for the Oceans are launching a pilot project aiming to tackle marine plastic pollution on British islands by implementing innovative, community-based solutions. The initiative is part of our ‘Cold Water Islands Project’, a collaboration with Parley for the Oceans to develop a strategy that volunteer-led island communities will work to implement throughout 2019. The plastic pollution crisis can have a disproportionate negative impact on island ecosystems, wildlife and communities from the tropics to the tundra. This new project, targeting small cold water islands around the UK, is based on the learnings from Surfers Against Sewage’s award winning Plastic Free Communities campaign’. The programme will explore plastic pollution pathways and promote community-based solutions under the Parley AIR...