Capturing plastic before it reaches the ocean is one thing. Creating the business model and value chain needed to keep collection systems running is another. Through the Riverguard Initiative, Ocean Plastic Forum, All In On Green and Clean – the Danish Water and...
After several years of mapping and an intensive removal effort, approximately 3.4 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets have now been recovered from the seabed in Øresund. The result marks an important milestone in our project Havets Spøgelser (Ghosts of the Sea), in which...
From monitoring to mitigation: A practical roadmap for cities to reduce local riverine litter pollution Online webinarDate: 27 August 2026Time: 09:30–10:30 (CEST)Free registration Sign up here An estimated 80% of marine litter originates from land-based activities,...
From local action to regional impact: Tackling ocean-bound plastic in the Baltic Sea As a partner in the Circular Ocean-bound Plastic (COP) project, Ocean Plastic Forum has spent the past three years working alongside organisations from Denmark, Germany, Poland, and...
The From Beach to Big Bags (FBBB) project has reached an important milestone in its efforts to build transparent and accountable value chains for ocean-bound plastic. The collection and traceability processes within the project’s value chain have now been certified...
Training and capability building activities are currently underway in Chennai, India, as part of the From Beach to Big Bags project. Together with local partners, the project works to strengthen safer and more transparent waste management practices while supporting...
The floating waste barrier, which we in collaboration with local partners and Propel Organization, have been wokring to install over the last few months, has now finally been deployed in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The project, carried out in partnership with Engineers...
In Chennai, the From Beach to Big Bag (FBBB) value chain begins with the people who make plastic recovery possible in practice: local waste pickers. Working in collaboration with our scrap-shop partner Sri Nattar Devi Waste Paper Mart, the participating waste pickers...
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...