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Video Preventing Our Oceans from Becoming Dumps

Preventing Our Oceans from Becoming Dumps

This is a GRID-Arendal update to a video originally made by UNEP https://youtu.be/uCXEHrmEYpM


This video introduces the issue of marine litter and the role that the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) can play in solving the problem. 


More at: http://www.unep.org/gpa/gpml



Year: 2015

Produced by: UNEP

Tags: chemicals toxics and heavy metals documentary marine environment marine litter oceans waste waste and material resources

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