Plastic Bags are being banned in more states across Australia
USA refuse to do anything about the problem
Who are the main actors or groups involved in the solution?
France
Australia
Norway
England
Sweden
New Zealand
What is planned in the future by your group and the actors to solve the problem?
Australia will begin to take more action on cleaning up the great barrier reef

A city in the Philippines called San Fernando is fighting trash by making a new program of collecting the waste. The waste was originally collected by garbage trucks but it was expensive and ineffective. They are thinking about paying people to go from house to house to collect the rubbish. They would then bring them to warehouses and sort the rubbish. This would allow the rubbish to be recycles or composted rather than be dumped. 

who are the main actors or groups involved in the solution?

The Bahamas Plastic movement:
Founded by Bahamas-native Kristal Ambrose, the Bahamas Plastic Movement’s goal is to make the region free of plastic debris using research, education, citizen science, and policy change. The mission of the movement is to build a community of education and activism around plastic pollution. Launched in 2014, the movement conducts plastic education campus encourages people to join the programme by adopting a beach, etc. 


what is planned in the future by your group and the actors to solve the problem?

 

San Fernando have implemented compost and recycling systems to improve the amount of plastic and waste that reaches the ocean. So far they have managed to recycle 75% of their litter and in the future hope to increase this number once again to 93%. in South East Asia there are also people that glitter picking for a living. they sort through the trash and find recyclables and sell it to people use it for other things. To improve this fix, they plan on selling other things such as food scraps and increasing the amount of pickers that there are. 

The ecological and environmental impact caused by the increased use of plastic bags creates a significant threat to Port Phillip Bay and the Mornington Peninsula.

Plastic Bags can require between 20 to 100 years to break down and are often mistaken for food by marine animals.

Council has been actively protecting the bay in partnership with the Association of Bayside Municipality (ABM) and member councils, recently endorsing the ABM agreed policy position on a ban for plastic bags.

Places like Woolworths and Richies has already started to stop using plastic bags in some of these stores already.

 The Mornington Peninsula Shire has stated that protecting our environment and marine life is an important initiative. Council continues to strongly support the proposed amendments to the Environment Protection Act to ban the sale of single-use plastic bags.

Who are the main actors or groups involved in the solution?

The main actors are the people of the Mornington peninsula. And the council.

A grassroots non-profit organization working to protect and preserve the world's oceans by focusing on water quality, coastal ecosystems, beach access, beach and surf spot preservation. They operate mainly in North America as well as parts of Europe and Japan.

This organization is supported by Chris Hemsworth and he has helped clean up most of the coast lines in Hawaii and in Australia