New Zealand's exclusive economic zone of roughly 4,300,000 km2 is about 15 times the size of the its land mass.
Sustainable Coastlines coordinates and supports large-scale coastal clean-up events, educational programmes and public awareness campaigns.
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The exclusive economic zone extends 200 nautical miles from the coast. Notice how the islands increase the zone significantly.
A recent report by the Dame Ellen MacArthur Foundation calculated that there would be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. Even at the bottom of the world we have more plastic and less fish in our ocean than ever before.