Heritage Colombia is a $245-million initiative to support the creation, expansion and improvement of 32 million hectares (nearly 80 million acres) of protected land and marine areas in the country over the next decade.
The bill states that 30% of plastic items sold or bought be recyclable by 2028 and economic responsibility falls to producers
The project aims to grow one million fragments of coral and restore 200 hectares of reefs by 2023.
The ban includes checkout bags, cutlery, straws and food-service ware made from or containing plastics that are hard to recycle, and will come into effect by the end of 2022.
The study by Australia’s CSIRO involved 563 on-the-ground inspections and multiple interviews with waste managers in 32 municipalities.
Marine activists have welcomed the decree, which they say should help improve the global fisheries sector, given that vessels where worker abuse is rife also tend to be engaged in illegal fishing activities.
Ecuador now must grant public access to information related to the management of the country’s marine resources to journalists, civil society groups and others.
The novel evaporation method produces no waste and can be performed without electricity, and does not generate any carbon emissions or produce toxic by-products like brine.
2,300 acres of tidelands in Everett are now off-limits to development for the next 50 years with more likely to come soon.
In the longest coral resilience experiment ever, researchers found that two coral species cope well with changing ocean conditions and could be used for reef restoration.
