‘1M2 FOR BEACHES AND SEAS’ (SPAIN), LIBERA´S ANNUAL CITIZEN SCIENCE CLEAN UP LITTER EVENT IN MARINE AREAS, EXPECTS HIGHER GROWTH IN 2018
The Libera project, a creation of Spain’s flagship environmental NGO, SEO/Birdlife, in alliance with Ecoembes, will mobilize this year thousands of volunteers, from September 28 to October 7, in almost 90 seashore points across Spanish coast.
In this specific clean up event, along with its other environments, we head to the beaches, to the seas and to the shallow seabeds to contribute to citizen science through assessing litter with MARNOBA app and then trying to reduce the litter and waste there to zero. This massive mobilization reached 70 seashore points and 31 tons of litter last year, involving all kinds of waste including furniture, home appliances, car tires and thousands of cigarette butts.
‘1m2 for beaches and seas’ belongs to the ‘knowledge’ area of LIBERA, one of the three key parts of Libera, along with the prevention and the participation, where Libera tries to become part of the solution to the problem of littering. Because even if it´s not our litter, It is our problem.
You can read more information about this initiative here.