On the 27th of January, we held the official opening ceremony for our floating waste barrier in Buckingham Canal, Chennai. The day brought together local communities, academic institutions, authorities, and international partners for a shared conversation on plastic...
It takes a village... And on Friday, it truly did. On the 23rd of January, Ocean Plastic Forum officially kicked off our trip to India with a visit to Buckingham Canal, where a floating waste barrier developed by Enviroguard was installed directly into the water. The...
Behind every successful recycling system is a network of people doing the everyday work. In our From Beach to Big Bags (FBBB) project, we are proud to collaborate with local scrap shops in Chennai, India. The local people who form the backbone of land-based plastic...
On Tuesday, May 27, Ocean Plastic Forum hosted the Ghosts of the Sea conference - a day dedicated to shedding light on the issue of lost fishing gear, commonly known as ghost nets, and exploring how we can work together to prevent, locate and remove them from Danish...
Ocean Plastic Forum is proud to announce that we have received funding from Danida Green Business Partnerships (DGBP) for our new initiative, From Beach to Big Bags (FBBB). The project, in partnership with Gleco A/S, Desmi Ro-Clean, and Kabadiwalla Connect, is setting...
The Circular Ocean-bound Plastic (COP) project has taken an important step in tackling marine litter by hosting stakeholder workshops in our pilot cities. These workshops brought together local municipalities, researchers, industry, waste managers, harbour managers,...
The Circular Ocean-bound Plastic (COP) project has published its first full report that examines the plastic waste streams into the South Baltic Sea. The report is based on literature review and desk research and cover a general look at the waste streams into the...
With official project launch on the 1st of September, the project "Collection of Ghost Nets - and the Story of it - in the Marine Nature Reserve Øresund" is now up and running. In the project, the association, in collaboration with our partners, will register and...
A new collaboration agreement has been reached between OPF and acckon ApS in the project "Closed-loop recycling of mooring lines". It is estimated that globally 75,000 tons of hawsers are produced in virgin plastic, equivalent to 7% of all maritime plastic waste....
In the Interreg project, supported by Interreg South Baltic with funding from the EU, the Ocean Plastic Forum will collaborate with Danish, Swedish, German, and Polish partners to identify challenges, opportunities, and best practices for collecting and recycling...