Topic: plastic waste

Seeing a Cayman turtle attempt to eat plastic, is a warning to all Caymanians and tourists alike. 

Håkon Strande went for a 'Little' walk. A very long one. The 55-year-old circumnavigated 23 miles of Little Cayman's shoreline to raise awareness of the plastic-pollution problem and to raise money for charities that are trying to tackle it.

Cayman-based photographer Jason Washington and freediving model Coral Tomascik shot this year's Inter Miami ocean plastic pollution awareness campaign near the Stingray City sandbar in the North Sound.

Delwin McLaughlin has been boating on the waters around Cayman for many years, but what he saw last Thursday stunned him: a floating stream of plastic more than a mile long in the ocean west of George Town.

Government has set up a committee to consider whether to ban single-use plastics.

Hundreds of Cayman residents woke up to big news Monday morning, with the announcement on Plastic Free Cayman’s Facebook page that government banned single-use plastic items for import and resale.

Cayman’s Tourism Attraction Board is making a pitch to make this year’s Pirates Week Festival a more eco-friendly one with its Pirates Against Plastic campaign.

Plastic free Cayman — Our editorial cartoon

I would also recommend that [supermarkets] use paper containers that are more eco-friendly and are compostable.