World Environment Day: Solutions to fight plastic pollution

The Solar Impulse Foundation, and UN Environment have very similar approaches when it comes to protection of the environment: we believe in the importance to highlight solutions rather than problems.

This is why a few weeks ago, in collaboration with UN Environment, we decided to launch a call for solutions to fight one of the biggest challenges of our time: plastic pollution - and even though we don’t focus on problems, it’s always good to remind that 8 million tonnes of plastic enter our ocean each year.

So, we received many innovative solutions that could help fight one of the biggest challenges of our time, and we’ve selected a few that we’d like to highlight.

A Solar Impulse Efficient Solution

• Pellenc: the optical sorting machine for waste treatment
  
  

Members of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions

• Greenrail
• Paptic
• Recycled Island Foundation
• Sea Cleaners
• Lactips

Through this initiative, we aim to encourage people to take concrete action to fight plastic pollution.

If you have a solution to fight plastic pollution, you can still join our challenge of #1000solutions and submit it here.