Project data

Funding Entity: European Commission

Call: Interreg MED

Coordinator: UNIVERSITA’ DI SIENA

UNISI Principal Investigator: Cristina Fossi

Department: PHYSICAL SCIENCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT

dURATION: 24 months (2021 – 2023)

Description

The Plastic Buster CAP project deploys a comprehensive, multilevel and strategic approach to facilitate the efforts of decision makers and stakeholders in effectively dealing with marine litters, among which the COVID-19 pandemic significant increase in the use of single-use plastics which account for up to 50% of beach litter. It will consolidate and fully exploit the knowledge obtained by 5 impactful projects in order to develop tailored-made capitalization outputs, i.e. tools and mechanisms addressing the entire management cycle of marine litter from monitoring and assessment to prevention and mitigation, that will create the enabling conditions for a societal shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns, and a truly circular economy and a green economy.

The project is also about dissemination, and includes comprehensive communication actions via online tools and social media, targeted capacity building programmes for marine litter monitoring and mitigation, public participation actions and awareness raising campaigns targeted to local communities, networking events for amphidromous and constructive exchanges between stakeholders, policy dialogue workshops, joint commitments to concretise the uptake of the project results, effective mainstreaming via the strategic positioning of the several project partners and the strong ties with relevant policy groups.

Source: Project website

 

This project has received funding from the European Union’s ENI CBC MED programme under GA No C_B.4.4_0047_Plastic Busters CAP