UN launches campaign to take out ocean trash

Mongabay
Mar 30, 2017, 4:27 pm195 pts
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a global campaign last month aimed at eliminating two of the chief sources of ocean trash by 2022: microplastics frequently used in cosmetics and single-use plastic products like shopping bags. According to a report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation…

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