Kenyans will be among millions of people in over 150 countries who will Saturday stand up against global waste pollution by cleaning up cities, towns, community neighbourhoods, estates, parks, rivers, forests, and beaches to mark the World Clean-up day.
The ports are not suitable for very high capacity vessels because of the shallowness of most of them. Another problem is debris in the waters. About 80 per cent of marine litter is believed to be plastics. The problem is not limited to Nigeria.
As part of the Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI), MSI was awarded a contract for the installation of AXYS TRIAXYS directional wave buoys in Comores, Seychelles and Madagascar.
Three days was the time it took for the West African leg of the “Arctic Sunrise”, the ice breaking ship of the NGO Greenpeace, to travel from the North Pole to the South Pole to raise awareness about ocean protection. Greenpeace presented a report on the environmental and ecological damage caused by fishmeal plants in West Africa from September 12 to 14, 2019 in Senegal.
It is that time fo the year again! Yes, the local plastics industry will once again demonstrate its commitment to cleaning up the environment with the annual Clean-up and Recycle SA Week taking place from 16 to 21 September 2019.
Plastics are part of our everyday lifestyles, and their release into the environment is yet another serious global environmental crisis impacting the ecosystem and related services.
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