Clean Up The Med is back, an important and international campaign to clean up the beaches and natural sites around the Mediterranean Sea. The campaign will be held in spring, for a weekend dedicated to love for the environment, for the territory and for our sea. Volunteers are invited to join the campaign. Admissions will be open until March 21.

This year the Clean Up The Med Campaign, coordinated since 1995 by Legambiente, is promoted by the COMMON project, and thanks to it there will be the possibility of further expanding the boundaries of the initiative, involving Lebanon and Tunisia at the forefront.

Over the years Clean-up the Med has involved 21 Mediterranean countries and also this year schools, volunteers, citizens, and local civil societies will clean the coasts and natural reserves of waste of any kind generated by wrong human activities.

Last year alone, the initiative allowed the collection of 800,000 tons of waste, and the union of 500,000 people from different cultures, all united against the pollution of marine litter along our beaches and the sea. 

The COMMON project (COastal Management and MOnitoring Network for tackling marine litter in Mediterranean Sea) is a European project which aims at building a collaboration network between Italy, Tunisia and Lebanon to support a correct management of marine litter. Funded under the ENI CBC Med Programme, it applies the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) principles to the challenge of marine litter, improving knowledge of the phenomenon, enhancing the environmental performance of 5 pilot coastal areas in Italy, Tunisia and Lebanon, and engaging local stakeholders in marine litter management.

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ENI CBC Med – Cooperating across borders in the Mediterranean