# A coalition of development banks plans to invest over 60-billion-rand by 2030 to combat plastic pollution in the oceans. The Clean Oceans Initiative, relaunched at a UN conference in France, aims to tackle plastic waste and microplastics threatening ecosystems and human health. The project, backed by European and Asian banks, will fund waste management, new packaging solutions, and recycling efforts, with hopes of involving more global partners.
Development Banks pledge over R60-billion to fight ocean plastic pollution