Marine Debris Project Sub-Fund
The Marine Debris Management and Innovation (MDMI) Sub-Fund supports APEC’s strategic objective of supporting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative, and secure growth. The sub-fund aims to institutionalize and provide ongoing support to advance APEC’s objectives of reducing marine debris to promote sustainable development. It will support initiatives related to improving management of land and sea based sources of marine debris and promoting development of technical and financial innovations to prevent and reduce marine debris.
An overview of sub-fund can be found here.
The eligibility requirements for the sub-fund may be found here.
APEC Project Proposal Process may be found here.
Ocean and Fisheries Working Group
Projects in Implementation
Project Year - 2023
- APEC Workshop on Regional Marine Debris Management (Chinese Taipei)
- Workshop on International Policy Development of Marine Pollution Control, including Marine Plastic Debris and Sustainable Waste Management (China)
Project Year - 2022
- Workshop on Promoting Bioplastic Materials to Reduce Marine Plastic Litter in the Asia Pacific Region (Indonesia)
Project Year - 2021
- Capacity Building on Marine Debris Management and Monitoring from Source as River is the Major Transport Pathway (Malaysia)
- Capacity Building on Vessel Innovation to Combat Marine Debris (Indonesia)
- Determining Microplastics Distribution in Coastal Aquaculture Input System and Developing its Mitigation Plan towards Seafood Safety (Indonesia)
- Presentation (SOM3 - 2021)
- Good Practices for Traceability Mechanism of Marine Debris Recycled Products in the APEC Region (Chinese Taipei)
Project Year - 2020
Projects in Implementation
Project Year - 2022
- Leveraging Chemical Recycling in a Circular Economy (United States Industry)
Project Year - 2022