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Ocean Recovery Alliance

Ocean Recovery Alliance is an NGO focused on creating innovative solutions and collaborations to improve the health of the ocean. Its network of organizations, entrepreneurs and innovators, particularly related to plastic sustainability and circularity, but also dedicated to broad ocean governance and new thought leadership, and helps to create engaged and active dialogue where gaps often occur due to between entities that often do not have a history of working with one another. The group creates purposefully designed activities to educate, build awareness and provide solutions which inspire positive societal change at the community, national and international levels.
 
Global Tourism Plastics Initiative Signatory

Two of Ocean Recovery Alliance’s international programs to reduce plastic pollution were launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2010, the Global Alert platform, and the Plastic Disclosure Project. The Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP) was the world's first methodology for plastic footprint baseline analysis (2010), and has been used by a number of hotels/chains since then, mainly in the Asian region. 

Ocean Recovery Alliance has worked with both UNEP and the World Bank. For instance, they have been recently training companies in Thailand and Malaysia under UNEP's Sea Circular program, which includes a number of hotels. They also have the Global Alert app, which let people report trash hotspots anywhere in the world's waters, and which can be extremely effective for employee, guest and community engagement, and for watershed management, with obvious benefits to the tourism sector.

Lastly, Ocean Recovery Alliance is the founder and organizer of the Plasticity Forum, which is one of the few business conferences that solely focuses on innovations and solutions for 2nd life plastic.

Sectors
Plastic
Scope
Global
Organisation Type
Civil society

Commitments:

In the framework of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, Ocean Recovery Alliance commits to:

  • Encouraging their affiliated organisations and businesses or partners to join the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative and providing a number of services, programs and knowledge which the tourism sector can benefit from. 
  • Advising and guiding affiliated organisations and businesses or partners to better manage plastics in their operations through practices, criteria, standards and/or policies, and support them to implement their commitments to the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative when applicable, by pursuing the Plastic Disclosure Project which is a tool for the tourism sector to use in order to reduce the plastic footprints and waste impacts of its constituents and the communities they work in.
  • Sharing success stories, case studies and examples, when approved by the party in focus, on social media, their websites and speaking about their engagements on the topic.