Minambiente, agreement against waste in protected marine areas

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of the Environment and Corepla (Consortium for the recovery of plastic) for the launch of an experimental marine litter management project, which focuses on containing plastic both around the mouths of the main Italian rivers and in marine protected areas. In making it known in a press release, the ministry explains that "the collection of floating waste will be carried out by the ministry's anti-pollution fleet as part of the prevention and fight against marine pollution service. The project, lasting up to twenty-four months, will involve rotation of fifteen ports (five at a time), where the fleet's vehicles will deliver the marine litter collected at sea to Corepla which will bear the management and treatment costs up to a maximum quantity of 36 tons ".
    "The marine litter - observes the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa - has assumed an increasingly central role in recent years among the pressures that insist on marine ecosystems.
    In parallel, a growing awareness of the phenomenon has led to an increasingly widespread response at an international level This experimental project with Corepla is a concrete action that integrates the initiatives already undertaken by the Ministry of the Environment, such as the 'Salvamare' law, to clean the sea of ​​plastic and protect it ".
    The data collected, the note continues, "will constitute an important step for the ministry to measure the quantities of waste at sea and develop appropriate initiatives for an integrated approach to the traceability of marine and terrestrial sources of waste".
    Corepla's choice stems from the experience developed by the consortium in recent years in experimental projects in different areas of the national territory for the collection and management of plastic in rivers and at sea. (HANDLE).