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    • Pilot areas
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    • An introduction to plastic and marine litter
    • Sources and pathways
    • Distribution
    • Impacts
    • Management
  • Project publications
  • FAQ
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European Union Development Fund
  • About Blastic
    • Project organisations
    • Pilot areas
    • Project team
    • Work packages
    • Events
  • Blog
  • Knowledge bank
    • An introduction to plastic and marine litter
    • Sources and pathways
    • Distribution
    • Impacts
    • Management
  • Project publications
  • FAQ
  • Contact

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  • An introduction to plastic and marine litter
    • A peek into the plastic industry
    • Marine litter is a persistent and cumulative threat
  • Sources and pathways
    • Introduction
    • Land-based sources
    • Sea-based sources
    • Pathways
    • References
  • Distribution
    • Fate of marine litter
    • Sea surface
      • Macrolitter
      • Microlitter
    • Shoreline
      • Macrolitter
      • Microlitter
    • Water column
    • Seafloor
      • Macrolitter
      • Microlitter
    • Sea ice
    • Biota
  • Impacts
    • Entanglement
    • Toxicity of plastics
    • Impacts of hazardous substances
    • Plastic ingestion
      • Birds
      • Fish
      • Bivalves
      • Other macro-invertebrates
    • Smothering
    • Invasive species
  • Management
    • Introduction
    • Global Framework
    • EU Legislation and Policies
    • HELCOM activities
    • EU’s Circular Economy
    • References
  • FAQ – Plastic waste in a nutshell

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Project partners
Keep Sweden TidyKeep the Archipelago Tidy AssociationFinnish Environment Institute (SYKE)Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn CentreIVL Swedish Environmental Research InstituteFoundation for Environmental Education LatviaTallinn City GovernmentCity of Turku

The BLASTIC project (2016-2018) aims at reducing plastic waste and, thereby, the inflow of hazardous substances into the Baltic Sea by mapping and monitoring the amounts of litter in the aquatic environment.

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