The scale and rapidly increasing volume of marine litter and plastic pollution is putting the health of all the world’s oceans and seas at risk. Despite current initiatives and efforts, the amount of plastics in the ocean has been estimated to be around 75-199 million tons and this projection could nearly triple to 23-37 million tons per year by 2040.

This is according to the ‘Global Assessment of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution-From Pollution to Solution ’ conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2021

To raise public awareness, SWAP produced a multi-lingual (English, French, Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Bislama, Pidjgin) short film on how plastics and micro-plastics are entering our diets through contaminated fish, and what we may do to help address this growing problem.

All the videos are available on the SPREP YouTube channel.

The videos can also be made available in MP4 version on request at juliep@sprep.org.