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Collecting litter and data to combat plastic pollution

News Published 17 Sep 2019 Last modified 10 Dec 2019

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Photo: © Nils Nedel on Unsplash

More and more communities around the world are working against marine litter and plastic pollution. A Danish initiative mobilises schoolchildren to collect plastic waste and research data that will become part of the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) database on marine litter. Better data on plastic pollution helps inform policies and tackle the problem.