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CAPonLITTER: 2nd Interregional Learning Event – Bulgaria

ADMINISTRATOR 10.07.2020 No Comment


  Second Interregional Learning Event – Bulgaria

Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities (UBBSLA) hosted the 2nd Interregional Learning Event (ILE) on July 9th, 2020. The event was part of the implementation of the project “CAPonLITTER Capitalising good coastal practices and improving policies to prevent marine litter“, which aims at improving policies and practices that can help in preventing marine litter that results from coastal tourism and recreational activities. More specifically, the project is focusing on key fractions of waste, such as plastic food and drink containers originating from beach facilities and recreational events, due to improper behaviour of consumers but also to lack of incentives and structures for prevention, collection and recycling of waste. The project involves authorities and organisations from Portugal, Spain, France, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria and Germany, territories in which coastal tourism is a key economic activity, which is not only highly impacted by marine litter but can also put significant pressure on local infrastructures and generate large amounts of unmanaged waste.

Because of the COVID-19 crisis, the 2nd ILE was split into two parts: the first one, with an online meeting on 09.07.2020, and the second one, face to face in Bulgaria, in 2021. For the online meeting stakeholders from all CAPonLITTER regions joined virtually to share good practices about beach waste management, in particular, waste disposal and collection aspects.

All presentations of our stakeholders could be downloaded from here:

The experience of Bulgaria

>>>>“Involvement of young people and local citizens in the implementation of strategies for beach protection and beach waste management”, Nora Stefanova -“BG be active” NGO

>>>>“The Quarantine Festival, as a means of activating local communities in beach management and conservation strategies”, Kristiyana Georgieva – Festival’s team

The experience of Portugal

>>>>“Beach waste management – best practices from the Torres Vedras Municipality”, Raquel Lopes – Environmental and sustainability departement Torres Vedras Municipality

>>>>“Beach waste management – best practices from the Oeiras Municipality”, Domingos Leitão – Water Resources Cordinator Oeiras Municipality

The experience of Germany

>>>>“Best practices concerning waste disposal and beach waste management in Germany”, Dorothea Seeger – BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)

>>>>“Beach waste management: the example of the island Spiekeroog”, Barbara Voß – North Sea Lido Spiekeroog

The experience of Spain

‘>>>>Playa pallet: every day is beach clean-up day.’ Lærke Heilmann, Project Coordinator at Clean Ocean Project

>>>>‘Volunteering as support in the management of marine waste collection on the coast of the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve.’ Bárbara Y. Abaroa Pérez, marine scientist and technician from the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve

The experience of Croatia

>>>>“Presentation of the BlueBag initiative”, Marin Pavlić, Ponikve Eko Otok Krk

The experience of France

>>>>Julien Loubet, Head of Operations at the (South East) Regional Direction of CITEO. Jean-Marc Sanchez, Head of the Department waste collection and disposal of Metropole Aix-Marseille-Province

The experience of Italy

>>>>Emilio Blanco, Waste Policy Officer at Legambiente, part of Break Free  From Plastic Network, coordinated by Waste Europe

The experience of Greece

>>>>‘PLASTECO project’, Gkolfinopoulou Nikoleta, Head of the Environment department of Rethymno municipality,  Municipality of Rethymnon