Cities and Businesses Tackling the Tourism Plastic Crisis

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI) partnered with WWF Plastic Smart Cities project and organized a webinar exploring how plastic pollution resulting from tourism can be addressed at the city level on 21st May 2024.
 

Everyday, plastic flows into our natural environment at an unprecedented rate, posing a threat to land and marine ecosystems, local economies and human health.

The tourism sector, including destinations and business, has an important role in contributing to the solution for plastic pollution. Tourism is responsible for up to 40% increase of marine litter in some areas like the Mediterranean and at the same time, plastic damages the aesthetic of tourist destinations resulting in major economic costs and losses in tourism-related incomes.

Many cities and tourist operators are already acting to reduce plastic consumption and pollution.

The discussion was on the policies and initiatives that destinations and businesses can develop to keep plastic away from our sea and nature.