The general objective of the project is to implement concrete and joint interventions that allow to address the phenomenon of marine Litter from different points of view and methods of intervention. The project therefore puts into effect concrete actions of monitoring, management, prevention and removal of the marine litter without neglecting the normative aspect within which these actions are framed. Finally, it proposes innovative and experimental actions aimed at treating plastic waste in a circular economy perspective.

The MARLESS project intends to tackle the problem of Marine Litter in the Adriatic Sea from many fronts in order to obtain visible and concrete results. Numerous in fact are the factors that intervene in the creation of Marine Litter, plastics coming from the inland, plastics from the touristic sector or aquaculture. The project then addresses the problem in a holistic way and develops over 6 WPs aimed at attacking the problem on all fronts, involving all the direct or indirect responsible actors of the Marine Litter, which together can represent the solution to the problem. The project is divided into:

Monitoring actions aimed at comparing the partners on the methodologies used in the Marine Strategy on their own territories and at implementing a profitable mix of good practices as well as enhancing the actions already implemented.

Governace and raising awareness actions aimed at carrying forward citizen engagement interventions both in schools, in the tourism sector and in a more holistic and integrated perspective of the Costa Contract;

Integrated regulatory management actions aimed at identifying the nodes where the application of different regulations intersects and causes bottlenecks that hinder the effectiveness of the interventions

Pilot actions which aim to test experimental actions whose outcomes will then be collected in toolboxes for the benefit of all partners who can then transfer them to their own territories.

Type of service

• support to the Central Directorate for Environmental Protection, Energy and Sustainable Development, Waste Management and Polluted Sites Discipline Service in administrative and technical-operational management activities
• support to the Central Directorate for Environmental Protection, Energy and Sustainable Development, Waste Management and Polluted Sites Discipline Service in the communication activity (WP2) and in particular in the coordination of actions, in the organisation of events (info-days, exhibitions) and in the production of promotional material
• support to the Central Directorate for Environmental Protection, Energy and Sustainable Development, Waste Management and Polluted Sites Discipline Service in the implementation of the education and awareness-raising activity (WP4) and in particular in the coordination of the WP, in the carrying out of 3 lessons/workshops for schools and adult associations, in a beach waste collection initiative, in the involvement of beach concessionaires of the FVG Region in some project activities (transnational meeting and training), in the creation of a list of stakeholders and in the creation of a permanent table and the review of the coastline contract