The Ocean Is Awash with Plastic: How Can the Maritime Industry Help?
The eight-part series, Blue Planet II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough last year on BBC, seems to have awoken the public’s attention to the crisis of our oceans being littered with vast amounts of plastic, fishing gear, and other types of marine debris. As a result, cities, states, and nations around the world, as well as major cruise lines, are proactively looking at ways to reduce plastic to keep it from entering the sea. Read More »
This article by Joan M. Bondareff, of counsel at Blank Rome, and Jeanne M. Grasso, partner at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the June 2018 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.