Mois : October 2018

The European Parliament has endorsed today the initiative to tackle marine litter at its source, targeting the 10 plastic products that most often end up in the oceans, as well as lost and abandoned fishing gear. Taken together, these products constitute 70% of marine litter. Europeans are greatly concerned about the impacts of plastic waste on their…
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The cleanAtlantic project in collaboration with OceanWise, ML-Style, and LitterDrone projects is organising the Workshop “Marine litter: From a global environmental challenge to a job creation driver” in the frame of the 5th Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conferencethat will be held in Vigo on the 24th October, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm. These projects deal with…
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Las basuras marinas, y más específicamente los plásticos y  microplásticos, uno de los problemas más importantes a los que se enfrenta el medio acuático, es, además, en materia de investigación, una cuestión emergente y relativamente nueva a la que se están dedicando grandes esfuerzos con el propósito de conocer su dimensión, su impacto y determinar…
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CleanAtlantic participated in the « III Seminar for the Protection of the Marine Environment: The marine litter threat » held by the CEIDA (Centro de Extensión Universitaria e Divulgación Ambiental de Galicia) on the 3rd and 4th October, in Oleiros, A Coruña (Spain). The event was organised by the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO). The CleanAtlantic…
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