The Trash Free Waters Initiative is a partnership between the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Peace Corps, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Cartagena Convention Secretariat, UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and its Caribbean Sub-Regional Office.
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.