European Projects on marine litter

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

Blue Lab LITTERDRONE 

• LitterDrone will develop an innovative service for the monitoring and management of marine litter at the coastline, by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),  "drones".

ARCADIS study

• Marine Litter study to support the establishment of an initial quantitative headline  

EUNOMIA study

• Study to support the development of measures to combat a range of marine litter sources

DELTARES Study

•  Identification and Assessment of Riverine Input of (Marine) Litter

European Parliament Pilot Project

MARELITT

 good practices for the removal of litter and derelict fishing gear from the sea.

eco-innovation programme

RETRAWL2

• upscale an innovative recycling technology, which transforms used maritime waste, mainly discarded fishning nets, trawls and ropes and taifune steel into high quality plastic raw materials

LIFE Programme (database)

SMILE – Strategies for Marine Litter and Environmental prevention of sea pollution in coastal areas

• Maremola River Basin with the municipalities of Pietra Ligure, Magliolo, Giustenice and Tovo San Giacomo. Nets in river catch and monitor litter

AMMOS  reduction of smoking related litter on beaches.

• integrated information campaign for the prevention/reduction of smoking-related litter in coastal areas of Greece

GHOST - Lost or discarded fishing gears

• co-funded under the LIFE + Biodiversity Instrument of the European Union, promotes concrete measures to preserve and improve the ecological status of the rocky habitats (Tegnùe) in the north Adriatic sea. ()

DEBAG plastic bags

• project aims to develop and implement an integrated information and awareness-raising campaign for the prevention and reduction of plastic bag pollution in the marine environment in Greece.

Research - Seventh Framework Programme and Horizon2020 (leaflet)

BioClean

• biotechnological solutions for the degradation and detoxification of plastic

CLEANSEA 

• analysed socioeconomic costs of marine litter and instruments to prevent it

ECsafeSEAFOOD

• database for priority chemical compounds, a unique database in which data on contaminants of emerging concern in seafood species are collated.

COMMON SENSE 

• data acquisition systems by developing innovative sensors that will contribute to our understanding of how the marine environment functions.

Sea Litter Critters 

• A compact, unmanned, renewables-powered and self-sufficient vessel able to pick up marine litter and to treat it on board for volume reduction and energy recovery

MARLISCO 

• to raise societal awareness of both the problems and the potential solutions relating to the accumulation of marine litter.

NANOPLAST 

• A computational study of the interaction between nanoplatic and model biological membranes

UPCYCLINGTHEOCEANS 

• High quality clothes made from marine plastic litter

European Regional Development Fund (Territorial Cooperation)

DeFishGear:

•  accurate, coherent and comparable scientific data on marine litter in the Adriatic-Ionian macroregion

MICRO 

•  a risk and impact evaluation of microplastics on the 2 Seas are

MARELITT Baltic

• reducing the impact of marine litter in the form of derelict fishing gear on the Baltic Sea environment

JPI Oceans

BASEMAN

• Defining the baselines and standards for microplastics analyses in European waters

EPHEMARE 

•  Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics in marine ecosystems

PLASTOX 

• -Direct and indirect ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms

WEATHER-MIC 

• How microplastic weathering changes its transport, fate and toxicity in the marine environment