Monica Pelliccia is an Italian freelance multimedia journalist. She writes on environmental and social topics, such as biodiversity conservation, women’s issues, climate change, indigenous rights, food security and agroecology. She has produced reports from India, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil and Cambodia. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/contributor/monica-pelliccia/rss en Blue Economy Plastic Pollution Solutions Tue, 05 Jun 2018 03:00:00 +0000 Monica Pelliccia https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/06/05/the-island-paradise-where-the-roads-are-made-of-plastic https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/06/05/the-island-paradise-where-the-roads-are-made-of-plastic Utila, a Honduran island in the Caribbean Sea, is transforming the plastic trash that washes up on its beaches into material used to build roads, an increasingly popular use for marine pollution.