Norwegian Development Program News Today

A Southeast Asia environment agency is finding ways to help manage plastic waste entering the world’s rivers as it celebrated Earth Day 2022 on April 22. The Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (Pemsea) released a set of five studies under Project Aseano, a three-year initiative…

"Around 11 million tons of plastic enter our oceans yearly. This is equivalent to an entire garbage truck’s worth of plastic every minute,” said World Wide Fund for Nature Global Plastics Policy Coordinator Huy Ho during a webinar on “Replicable models on marine plastic pollution monitoring” early this month. “The…