Marine Litter Awareness, Monitoring, Removal and Recycling

VLPF in cooperation with the EU mission Ocean and Waters projects SeaClear 2.0 and REMEDIES and other indipendent initiatives will use new digital assets to organise beach litter awareness, monitoring and clean up campaigns in the lighthouse demo site of Venice and its lagoon for the Mediterranean Basin, according to the EU protocols and standards:
By the end of year 2026, we will:
- Involve hundreds of persons in joint clean up and marine litter monitoring campaigns with the use of the digital app for beach litter monitoring and clean-up developed by VLPF whose data will be shared with the local administration and OGS EMODnet secretariat in Trieste https://www.plasticfreevenice.org/video#video-1;
- Organise one international event per year at the international boat show of Venice, namely the "International workshop on Marine lItter Monitoring removal and circular economy".
- Will set in place a value chain for the mechanical processing recycling of hard to reclyng plastics, in particular fiber glass from long stranded wrecked abandoned boats " the Ghost Boats" in the lagoon of Venice (at least 5 boats per year) https://www.plasticfreevenice.org/video#video-4;
- We will equip a traditional rowing boat of Venice to join 3 editions of the Regata Storica of Venice parade, one of the most spectacular and engaging moments in the city’s life along the Grand Canal. The boat will carry the ensign of the Mission Ocean and Waters on its rear for large public promotion and awareness https://www.plasticfreevenice.org/video#video-3.
Finally VLPF will produce high quality audio-visual material to promote, document and report on the actions conducted under the Mission and Ocean Framework