We are being fed daily with pictures in the media showing animals suffering the consequences of littering, plastic in the marine environment.That’s why we at Keep Sweden Tidy are happy to be a part of the project BLASTIC.
In this project we want to help municipalities around the Baltic Sea to take action and mitigate marine litter and live up to commitments they have taken and the framework that is currently in place and even take a lead and show examples on how to tackle marine litter. Most of the marine litter comes from land based sources, so the best way is to stop it at its source. This is what the project BLASTIC will contribute to.
The Project Partners just recently met in Tallinn, for discussing and planning our work in the nearest future. So far our major outputs are that SEI Tallinn centre has developed a checklist for mapping the sources, flows and pathways of plastic litter, this is almost finalized and they will also perform the mapping in pilot areas based on the developed checklist. Our pilot areas are the municipality of Ventspils, Turku, Tallinn and Södertälje. During next year the monitoring will start and IVL is developing a methodology for monitoring plastic litter and will carry out the monitoring of plastic litter in the pilot areas based on the developed methodology.
A great news for us is that BLASTIC has become a Flagship project under Policy Area Hazards in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), we are very proud of this and here is the logo to show it.
We will put our outputs from the project for example finalized reports on our web page and do not hesitate to contact us for more information.
Representatives from our Project Partners are also out and about, so check out news and coming events on this website so we can meet in person.
All the best,
Elin Leander and Eva Blidberg
Keep Sweden Tidy