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WREN is providing technical consulting services for a regional initiative focused on reducing plastic pollution affecting marine biodiversity and sensitive coastal ecosystems across the Pacific. The project focuses on two sites per country, chosen by the country-counterparts. The work involves designing and implementing a comprehensive waste data collection framework, including household, beach, street, maritime, community, and commercial surveys, as well as assessments of existing waste infrastructure across all three countries. Alongside this, biodiversity and eDNA surveys are underway at each site to build an overlapping baseline of plastic pollution, biodiversity, and environmental DNA data. Post baselining, we are working with IUCN, the respective governments and the communities to create evidence-based action plans to tackle the pollution issues impacting the sites and supporting implementation of some of these actions.
WREN is supporting project design, facilitating national-level collaboration, and overseeing waste audit and plastic flow mapping processes. The project applies an integrated, participatory approach to address key sources of land-based plastic pollution, aiming to deliver meaningful environmental benefits while supporting circular economy opportunities in coastal communities.
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