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Øresund Days 2025 – World Ocean Day
On Sunday, June 8, we kicked off Øresund Days 2025 with a splash, hosting events in Helsingør Harbour, Vedbæk Harbour and Amager Beach Park. Despite grey skies on the horizon, the day was filled with energy, curiosity, and a shared love for the sea. Activities...
Ghosts of the Sea: Conference about ghost nets in Danish waters
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 Receives DGBP Funding for Recycling Project in India
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...
Stakeholder Workshops Across the South Baltic: Local Collaboration for Cleaner Seas
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 COP project publishes report on Plastic Waste Streams into the South Baltic Sea
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...
Ocean Plastic Forum receives million-funding to remove ghost nets in Øresund
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...
OPF signs collaboration agreement with startup company acckon ApS
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....
The Interreg project, “Circular Ocean-bound Plastic,” was officially launched in January 2024.
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...
Agreement in place regarding a location for waste management in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Together with Engineers Without Borders Denmark, Danish Engineering Service, and our local partner, World Hope International, OPF has entered into an agreement with the Mayor's Office in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown City Council, regarding a location for...
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