From Data to Solutions: How Beach Monitoring in the Philippines and Timor-Leste Helps Shape Policies on Marine Plastics

Friday, 4 July 2025

Setting up the transects of the monitoring site along the coast of Barangay San Agustin Sur,Tandag City, in preparation for the actual beach monitoring activity. (Photo by PEMSEA/J.Castillo)

 

Marine plastics is one of the biggest threats that hound the East Asian Seas region, but universities and NGOs in the Philippines and Timor-Leste are geared to change that, believing that data-driven solutions through beach monitoring can help push interventions and policies on the growing threat of marine plastics pollution.  

 

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