Island beaches reveal the increasing problem of marine plastic pollution, revealing the fact that what is carelessly thrown away turns up somewhere else, adding to the pressure on island communities to find sustainable ways of dealing with others’ waste as well as their own.
How might we think about waste differently? Can rubbish be reimagined as a resource?
In this session we hear about the challenges and opportunities some island communities have experienced in dealing with waste in different forms and explore innovative ideas for reusing and recycling materials.
This session is intended as an opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion and presenters are invited to pose a question/problem/challenge to the rest of the panel/audience about island/marine waste.
Catriona Spink
Coordinator, Oceangives
