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Grant Programme against Marine Litter

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Marine Litter

Projects

  • A close-up of litter collected from the sea.
    ongoing

    MarLi: Marine Litter Prevention in Ecuador

    The MarLi project aims to strengthen the capacities of national institutions and local governments in Ecuador in order to improve the efficiency of waste management.

  • A huge collection of plastic bottles collected from the sea.
    ongoing

    Clean Caribbean: Marine litter prevention for a cleaner Caribbean sea

    The Clean Caribbean project is helping to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the Caribbean Sea and thus improve the protection of coastal and marine habitats.

  • Fishermen on boat throwing nets into water
    ongoing

    NET-Works - Vietnam

    NET-Works focuses on the reduction of marine litter from abandoned, lost or discharged fishing nets in Vietnamese coastal waters.

     

  • Garbage on a sandy beach
    ongoing

    MA-RE-DESIGN - Thailand

    MA-RE-DESIGN addresses both plastic waste management and sustainable packaging design in Thailand.

     

  • Piles of plastic waste on a river bank with boats
    ongoing

    SCIP Plastics - Bangladesh

    SCIP aims to further develop the entire waste process chain in the Khulna region and it also aims to build up long-term local and national expertise in Bangladesh.

  • Plastic garbage on the sea beach
    ongoing

    PROCEP - Mexico

    PROCEP determines the plastic input into the ocean at selected points on the coast of Oaxaca. In this way, PROCEP identifies hotspots for marine litter inputs as well as waste quantities, and can build and improve local environmental and waste management systems.

     

  • ongoing

    CCP: Prevention of Marine Litter in India

    The project is concentrating on reducing marine litter in the cities of Kochi, Kanpur and Port Blair, which are located in coastal regions, on islands or along rivers in close collaboration with the Indian partner institution, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

  • Garbage on a stone beach
    ongoing

    ReMaL - Lebanon

    ReMaL aims to reduce marine litter in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and improve political stability in Lebanon by supporting coastal Unions of Municipalities and the national government in establishing the foundations of integrated sustainable waste management.

     

  • Plastic waste on sandy soil
    ongoing

    TouMaLi - North Africa

    TouMaLi's intention is to reduce the amount of plastic waste coming from tourists and to recycle and reuse unavoidable waste.

  • ongoing

    Prevention of Marine Litter in the Caribbean Sea

    A number of measures are being introduced to reduce the flow of plastic waste into the Caribbean Sea from the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Columbia.

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    CES: Less marine litter in the Indian Ocean

    The ‘Circular Economy Solutions Preventing Marine Litter in Ecosystems’ (CES) project aims to work together with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to demonstrate technological approaches for the tracking and monitoring of waste in marine ecosystems.

  • Marine Litter
    ongoing

    The fight against marine litter

    The project is carried out by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and aims to provide needs-based advice to the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV), taking into account the national and international discourse surrounding the fight against marine litter.

  • A boy stands on a beach full of plastic waste
    ongoing

    Less Marine Litter in Vietnam

    The ‘Mitigating Marine Plastic Debris in Vietnam’ project from WWF Germany aims to achieve long-term reductions to marine litter input in Vietnam.