Progress Report for the Trash Free Waters Partnership USEPA-UNEP Cooperation on Global Environmental Programs 2015-2020. Fourth Meeting of the Scientific, Technical and Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol concerning Pollution from Land based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean.

The Trash Free Waters Initiative is a partnership between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Peace Corps, the United Nations Environment Programme – Caribbean Environment Programme (Secretariat to the Cartagena Convention); UN Environment’s Regional Office for Latin America and its Caribbean Sub-Regional Office. They are collaborating to implement activities in Panama and Jamaica to reduce and prevent land-based trash from entering watersheds, coastal waters, and the marine environment.