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USAID Newsletter:
June 2024

Protecting Our Oceans, Advancing Localization, Celebrating Pride Month, and More

Every year an estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean. Experts say that that rate is expected to triple in the next 20 years—unless there’s urgent action. Ahead of World Ocean Day this year, USAID, Unilever, and EY launched the CIRCLE Alliance, a public-private collaboration to support entrepreneurs and small businesses across the plastics value chain to scale solutions that reduce plastic use, tackle plastic waste, and build thriving circular economies. The effort is part of the Agency’s Save Our Seas Initiative to combat ocean plastic pollution, through which USAID and our partners have prevented the equivalent of 127 billion plastic bottles from leaking into the environment in the past two years.

Read the June 2024 edition of the USAID Newsletter.