Aid cash to curb plastic waste: Money from £500m fund will help keep oceans clean in developing countries, ministers say
British aid money will be used to help tackle plastic waste in developing countries, ministers said yesterday. The £500million Blue Planet Fund will protect the marine environment and reduce poverty. Some £16million of this fund will be spent on protecting the oceans from pollution and plastic waste. This will in turn fight climate change as it will protect marine species which are responsible for absorbing carbon from the sea. The Blue Planet Fund is named after the BBC series narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The £500million Blue Planet Fund will protect the marine environment and reduce poverty Stock The ocean is a carbon sink which every year absorbs almost a third of global CO2 emissions thanks to marine species such as coral reefs Stock The money will also help increase marine protection and save coral reefs, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said. Some £5.7million will be spent on a project in partnership with developing countries to tackle marine polluti