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 and as such share experience on how Academy, Industry, Governance actors and different key regional stakeholders in their various capacities can work together in a coordinated manner to address Mediterranean marine litter management.