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PLASTIC BUSTERS INITIATIVE Tackling marine litter in the Mediterranean since 2013 The Plastic Busters Initiative aims to provide a concrete opportunity to like-minded projects addressing the whole management cycle of marine litter to get together and fully explore the potential … Read More

The COMMON project aims at applying the ICZM principles to the marine litter management, improving the environmental performance of 5 pilot coastal areas in Italy (2), Tunisia (2) and Lebanon (1), testing a model that could be transferred to the … Read More

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Professor Maria Cristina Fossi will organize and participate at the  SETAC 2018 special session “8.02 Harmful effects of plastic litter and mitigation strategies in the Mediterranean Sea“. This special session envisages to showcase the Mediterranean answer to the global problem of marine litter … Read More

PlasticBusters MPAs Med Interreg project deploys the multidisciplinary strategy and common framework of action developed within the Plastic Busters initiative led by UNISI SDSN Mediterranean (Prof. M. Cristina Fossi) since 2013. Read more

Researchers from the US, Australia and Italy, in a study published in in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, looked at data on threats to large filter feeders from microplastics. Summary Microplastic pollution can impact filter-feeding marine megafauna, namely … Read More