(In four years of activity and monitoring 112 tons of garbage have been removed from our seas, including plastics, butts, nets and pots. Over 170,000 citizens including divers, boaters, fishermen and students, were protagonists together with the institutions of the largest campaign cleaning of coasts and seabeds never occurred in Italy, also capable of inspiring regulations to reduce the pressure of waste in the sea. These are some of the results achieved by "Clean Sea LIFE", a European project on marine litter of which the National Park of 'Asinara (Sassari), co-financed by the European Commission under the LIFE program. The data were presented at the final event of the campaign during a Webinar which saw, among others, the participation of the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa.
The project for the collection of the "marine litter" which began on 30 September 2016 and will end on 31 January 2021, has become the 'flagship project' of the LIFE program of the European Commission and has been carried out with the help of the CoNISMa partners. , Cetacea Foundation, Legambiente, MedSharks and Centro Velico Caprera.
There are 200 monitoring activities at sea and interventions on 106 beaches, many of citizen science, from the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic.
Minister Costa thanking for the campaign underlined: "I want to remember that Life projects are serious and rigorous" so if "Clean Sea Life has been extremely successful, it means that it has been managed well, that it has achieved the purpose, the purpose and the goals he set for himself ".
"It was a project that struck me a lot because perhaps it was, in the field of the sea, the one that had the greatest widespread participation of citizens".
For Eleonora de Sabata, spokesperson for Clean Sea Life "the project ends but continues to walk on the legs of all the people who have joined: everyone will continue to clean, collect and above all try to produce less waste".
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