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Exxon Mobil and
Chevron Phillips Chemical (see Plasteurope.com of 17.01.2019), who had committed to pump USD 1.5 bn into reducing and eliminating plastics waste in the environment, especially in the oceans.
The shutdown of the whole alliance was not officially announced, but after the premises of the groupâs Renew Oceans project in Varanasi on Indiaâs Ganges river were recently found abandoned, a spokesperson told Reuters that both AEPW and the Ganges clean-up had halted work in October 2020, due to coronavirus-related shutdowns and âother implementation challenges.â A lawyer for Renew Oceans told the news agency that the project simply did not have the capacity to operate at the scale needed.
Once a best project for cleanup, India program shuts down Screenshot of Vimeo video by National Geographic/AEPW/Renew Oceans
A Renew Oceans community relations workers (standing) talks with two people in a waste sorting facility.
Renew Oceans, one of the founding projects of the industry s $1.5 billion Alliance to End Plastic Waste, has ground to a halt, with organizers saying it is a victim of the pandemic and growing doubts the project could get to the size needed to succeed.
It launched as an effort targeted at cleaning up the Ganges River in India, but from the beginning it was seen by the plastics industry as something more ambitious that they could take worldwide.
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A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words Renew Oceans, sit rusting outside an empty, padlocked office in the Indian city of Varanasi, a short walk.