Progress report for
Achievement at a glance
Legambiente is pursuing the commitment to promote the strong need to spread the plastic bags ban to all the Mediterranean countries to prevent the pollution of this specific item in the Mediterranean sea. Since 2015 all the Mediterranean organization involved in the Clean up the Med campaign are monitoring beach litter following a common monitoring protocol in order to collect data on the presence of plastic bags, and other waste, on Mediterranean beaches and this work will continue to ensure a control of the trend of this problem (https://goo.gl/2SU8Lw). Within Clean up the Med 2017 edition, held in May, a communication on the need to ban plastic bags in all Mediterranean countries has been spread to all the participating organizations. Up to now, 74 among hotels, schools, universities, diving, associations, municipalities from Greece, Spain, Albania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Montenegro have joined our request to support the Plastic Bags Ban in all Mediterranean countries (https://goo.gl/JnzsR9). This commitment has been also presented at Our Ocean conference in Malta (http://ourocean2017.org/our-ocean-commitments).\r\n\r\nSince 2015 we are monitoring beach litter following a common protocol. Within Clean up the Med 2017 edition, a communication on the need to ban plastic bags in all Mediterranean countries has been spread to all the participating organizations. Up to now, 74 among hotels, schools, universities, diving, associations, municipalities from Greece, Spain, Albania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Montenegro have joined our request to support the Plastic Bags Ban in all Mediterranean countries (https://goo.gl/JnzsR9). This commitment has been also presented at Our Ocean conference in Malta (http://ourocean2017.org/our-ocean-commitments).
