Pacific Ocean Litter Youth Project

POLYP is a youth-led project tackling marine pollution through cleanups, debris surveys, advocacy, and storytelling to shift public mindsets and inspire action.

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POLYP Outreach and Art continues...

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The Veivueti Kids Ocean Conference was a blast, and POLYP had a great time engaging with school children and supporting the next generation of ocean advocates. Waste literacy matters!

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This was a World Oceans Day and World Environment Day event with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and partners. Over 1.5 tonnes of coastal litter was collected and sorted into 5 discrete categories—again, plastics had the strongest showing.

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When the trash starts coming it dont stop coming.

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POLYP presentation to the Minister of Education, the Hon Aseri Radrodro, at the Regional Conference on Advancing Ocean Learning: Navigating Knowledge in the Pacific held at the Marine Campus of the USP.

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The Navua Coastal Cleanup was nothing short of a success with 50 participants collecting 310 kg. The team also conducted trash audits using the @sustaincoasts methods as well as brand audits using the @brkfreeplastic methods. The kids were kept busy with the litter art project.

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Pleased to continue our engagement with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to support the "Do the Right Thing" National Anti-Litter Campaign.

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Next POLYP event is community focussed event in Navua this Saturday!

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POLYP breakup session for the year 2024 was filled with colour, laughs and a little bit of happy juice. So good to see our hardworking volunteers with pizza and presents in hand rather than the usual...trash.

Looking forward to what 2025 has in store.

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POLYP members braved the heavy rain in Suva last Saturday to assist the EcoGuardians team and the Embassy of Malaysia in cleaning up the Bilo Battery Historical Site. Community outreach lies at the heart of what POLYP seeks to do.

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Welcome to Fiji 🇫🇯 as a new member of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution and the 67th supporter of the HAC Ministerial Joint Statement for #INC5

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Australian scientists have trained a satellite to recognise the signature of plastic on a beach from an orbit of over 600km. The new technology will allow identification of beaches covered in 5-10% plastic.

Some of the beaches in Fiji will be glowing from space for sure.🎇🎇

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POLYP conducts Household and Coastal Waste Audit Training for Ra districts. 26 representatives from the Navolau and Nakorotubu Districts were trained to strengthen the capacity of communities, to conduct household waste audit and to develop innovative management solutions.

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@sustaincoasts Please take my money!! Outstanding work team

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@pmdphawaii Outstanding work fam!

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POLYP will be presenting at the Fiji National Plastics Symposium on the 17th of October!

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In commemoration of World Coastal Cleanup Day, the POLYP team braved the wind and rain to clean the beaches of Laucala Bay, Suva.

A big vinaka to @SprepChannel SWAP Project for the swag. We had come a long way from having a rain bath during our activities.

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Summertime in the Suva City

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@Tukalo Well 95% of the debris are from land-based sources. What we see on the beaches in Suva is overwhelmingly what is brought in by the tides. There is a general increase in marine debris on beaches after heavy rains

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Rains soaked plastic tides,
Shoreline fragments sit exposed,
Mother natures cry

Before and after pics of last week's cleanup.

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@realdeadthrone This beach too has seen you at your worst 😅