FRENCH shipping giant cma CGM will stop transporting plastic waste aboard its ships beginning June 1 to help curb ocean pollution, reports Ventura, California's gCaptain.
CMA CGM said it currently carries the equivalent of about 50,000 standard containers of plastic waste a year. This, it said, will prevent it from being exported to destinations where sorting, recycling or recovery cannot be assured.
CMA CGM, the world's No 3 container shipping company, told the One Ocean Summit held in France, that over the next 20 years 29 million tons of plastic waste will cause irreversible damage to marine ecosystems.
CMA CGM said its decision to refuse transport of plastic waste will prevent it from being exported to destinations where sorting, recycling or recovery cannot be assured.
In his address during the One Ocean Summit, CMA CGM chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saade also announced that CMA CGM will host one of the two sites of the French Institute for Decarbonation at Tangram, its major innovation and training centre due to open in Marseille in 2023.
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CMA CGM said it currently carries the equivalent of about 50,000 standard containers of plastic waste a year. This, it said, will prevent it from being exported to destinations where sorting, recycling or recovery cannot be assured.
CMA CGM, the world's No 3 container shipping company, told the One Ocean Summit held in France, that over the next 20 years 29 million tons of plastic waste will cause irreversible damage to marine ecosystems.
CMA CGM said its decision to refuse transport of plastic waste will prevent it from being exported to destinations where sorting, recycling or recovery cannot be assured.
In his address during the One Ocean Summit, CMA CGM chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saade also announced that CMA CGM will host one of the two sites of the French Institute for Decarbonation at Tangram, its major innovation and training centre due to open in Marseille in 2023.
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