Plastic Mining Cooperation is committed to start the Plastic Mining recycling program on all SIDS member states by 2025.
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Description
Our program aims to achieve cooperative partnerships and is based on a circular economic model that provides economic growth while at the same time stops plastic from leaking into the environment.
Our package consists of four parts: (1) an awareness program, (2) an industrial mobile recycling machine, (3) access to our trading platform, and (4) access to our monitoring systems and data.
In association with a local NGO, government, and business partner, we begin with our awareness program to create community engagement. At the same time, we work toward installation and operation of the mobile recycling machine, in association with our local business partner. Our monitoring systems collect data on levels of land- and ocean-based pollution and on biodiversity.
The production capacity of one of our mobile recycling machines is 1000 metric tons of plastic regrind per year. All materials are put in containment to stop it from leaking into the environment and make it easily transportable. The produced plastic regrind can be reused in local initiatives and sold through our Plastic Mining Trading Platform.
For example, the island of Bonaire creates 800 metric tons of plastic waste every year. One mobile recycling machine is sufficient to process and contain their total annual plastic waste stream. The machine is mobile and can also be shared among smaller islands.
The four-part program helps SIDS recycle their plastic waste to create value for the islands through a socially responsible cooperative system. We do all of this to achieve our ultimate goal: stopping plastic pollution in our oceans.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
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| 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
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Daniel Poolen, Chief Plastic Officer