Ending Plastic pollution is a goal to which Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne is committed.

According to Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation – Prime Minister Browne made the commitment, while speaking to more than 60,000 people attending the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York, announced that Antigua and Barbuda “will become the first Future Island Nation in the Caribbean”.

In a press release, the country’s leader said that through a new partnership with Parley for Oceans, Antigua and Barbuda will be adopting the Parley Air Strategy. Parley Air is the strategy to end the fast-growing threat of marine plastic pollution.

Prime Minister Browne revealed that Antigua and Barbuda is committing to building a Parley Air Base – a recycling station that actually works – which will intercept approximately 27,000 tons of plastic on the beaches and from polluting the environment by 2030, thereby helping eliminate plastic pollutants from the shores.

He told the thousands gathered in Central Park that the world must transition to more innovative methods to re-imagine the way plastic is used.

And in reference to the fact that Antigua and Barbuda in 2018 placed a ban on single use plastics and was the first nation in the Caribbean to do so, he also called on other nations to join in the fight against plastic pollution.

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