At midnight today (9 April), the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached agreement on a long-awaited EU regulation to prevent plastic pellet losses in the environment, a major source of microplastics pollution. The decision came in the wake of yet another disastrous pellet spill in European waters off the English coast due […]
Identifying illegal wildlife shipments at sea is like looking for a needle in hundreds of haystacks
In May this year, the cargo ship X-Press Pearl spilt 1,680 tonnes of plastic pellets, 9,700 tonnes of other plastics and other toxic chemicals off the East coast of Sri Lanka
As we showed in our report Double Impact, one of the most significant ways illegal wildlife and timber products are moved around the world is by sea. Through undercover investigations, EIA has unearthed numerous instances where the shipping transport sector has been an unknowing accomplice to the trafficking of wildlife and timber. The sector has […]
Of all the sea-based sources of marine plastic pollution, the most common, and also the most harmful, is lost and discarded fishing gear, also referred to as ‘ghost gear’
Parties to the Basel Convention today agreed a move to dramatically clean up the international trade of plastic waste