These days you could fill up newsletters with ocean litter initiatives and programmes. These seem to be growing exponentially – four recent examples. So the awareness and pressure is building but is it being focussed? We saw with plastic bags that focussed campaigns can work. That took years in the UK how long will it take for campaigns for card cotton bud sticks or to stop single bottles to work?

Four articles and videos:

City to Sea – website focussing on a range of plastics, reuse and clean-up projects with a recent wet wipe video

The 2 minute clean-up idea has spread to Wales

Another Coca Cola Greenpeace advert targeted at single use plastic bottles

Most polluted plastic island in the world