The Clean Seas campaign is launched at The Economist World Ocean Summit in Bali, Indonesia. On the same day, Indonesia announces that it is joining the campaign and pledges to reduce its plastic footprint by 70 per cent by 2025.

Kenya joins Clean Seas and announces its plans to ban plastic bags within six months.

Italy joins the campaign.

The Dominican Republic joins the campaign.

The Clean Seas campaign partners with the Volvo Ocean Race. As part of the partnership, the Race commits to substantially reduce the plastic footprint of the race.

Sweden joins Clean Seas and pledges roughly one million dollars to fund UN Environment’s work on marine plastic.

The Turn the Tide on Plastic team is announced. The team will be one of eight teams competing in the 2017/2018 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race and will take the message of turning the tide on plastic around the world.

Kenya’s plastic bag ban enters into force.

Maldives becomes the 28th country to join Clean Seas.

Brazil announces that the country is joining Clean Seas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, becoming the tenth Latin American country to do so.

Spain announces that it is joining Clean Seas during the Volvo Ocean Race’s Ocean Summit in Alicante. The country, which is the world’s 14thlargest economy, is the 32nd country to join the campaign.

Chile, Oman, Sri Lanka and South Africa announce that they are joining Clean Seas during the third session of the United Nations Environment Assembly.

New Zealand announces its ban of microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products.

The campaign releases the Break up with plastics video.

New Zealand announces that the country is joining CleanSeas during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Auckland.

Vanuatu becomes the first country in the world to ban plastic straws.

Volvo Cars join the Clean Seas campaign and pledges to remove single-use plastics from their offices, canteens and events across the globe by the end of 2019.

Chile announces its ban on plastic bags.

Argentina, Côte d’Ivoire, Guyana, Honduras, India and the United Arab Emirates use World Environment Day to announce that they are joining Clean Seas. Concurrently, India pledges to eliminate all single-use plastics by 2022.

Volvo Cars pledges that starting in 2025, 25 per cent of the plastics used in its new vehicles will come from recycled sources.