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Plastic Strategy and Marine Litter

Learn about the European Strategy for Plastic Waste in Oceans, EU regulations, funding mechanisms, and stakeholder involvement in resolving the marine litter crisis. Discover actions, directives, and improvements to combat plastic pollution in seas and oceans.

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Plastic Strategy and Marine Litter

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  1. Plastic Strategy and Marine Litter European Maritime Day, 31 May - 1 June 2018 Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

  2. Plastic in ocean increasing Number of species of seabirds that have ingested plastic

  3. Scale of marine litter problem • Up to 8 t of plastic are dumped into the sea annually (1,75Mt – from sea-based sources) • If we started from no plastic in the oceans in 2015, by 2025 there could potentially be over 160 million tons of plastic in the seas (according to Metro group)

  4. What is EU contribution to solve the plastic problem in oceans

  5. A EUROPEAN STRATEGY FOR PLASTICS IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY • Opportunities • Social innovation • Environment • Smart • Innovative • Sustainable Four main axis

  6. Sea-based sources Actions to tackle sea-based sourcesWhere does Fishing Gear fit in • Revision of PRF directive for the delivery of waste from ships • Development of measures to reduce loss or abandonment of fishing gear at sea (including recycling targets, EPR schemes, recycling funds or deposit schemes) • Development of measures to limit plastic loss from aquaculture (e.g. possible Best Available Techniques Reference Document) • Dealing with international aspects (FADs, cooperation with FAO)

  7. Draft directive of EP and Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment • COM adopted 28/05/2018 – next – trialogs • Focus SUP - 4 options- option chosen - to change consumer behaviour and product design • Fishing gear - 4 options- option chosen- introduce EPR, by adding dedicated mechanism for separate collection and returning gear to port and treatment and recycling of gear- this COM proposal was based on significant stakeholder contribution and this option considered most effective by stakeholders • Article 8 of draft Directive sets MS responsibility to establish EPR schemes regarding fishing gear

  8. Existing instruments CONTROL REGULATION (1224/2009) • Obligation to mark fishing gear (Art. 8) • Obligation to retrieve and notify lost gear (Art. 48) • Obligation to carry equipment for retrieval on board • Obligation to retrieve the lost gear • Obligation to report lost gear if it cannot be retrieved (id number of vessel, type of gear, time and position of loss, methods of retrieval) • Only one Member State authority reported it routinely collects notifications of lost gear • A significant quantity of retrieved abandoned gear is in fragments, unmarked and therefore difficult to link to the vessel that lost it

  9. Existing instruments EMFF - SHARED MANAGEMENT • Four articles allow for financing of marine litter activities • Art. 40.1(a) (UP1) – Collection of waste by fishermen, removal of lost fishing gear/marine litter • Art. 43 (UP1) – Investments in facilities for waste and marine litter collection • Art. 62 / Art. 63 (UP4) - Community–led local development/CLLD • Art. 80 (UP6) - Integrated Maritime Policy/IMP

  10. Existing instruments Marine Litter and shared management • Positive trend since previous period: • Number of MS implementing ‘fishing for litter’ operations doubled • Number of planned operations increased by 130% • Planned EU funding increased by 320% (from 5,2 to 21,8 M€) • Ensure adequate cover of marine litter post 2020

  11. Existing instruments EMFF – DIRECT MANAGEMENT • Launch of blue economy call 24/10/2017 • Strand on marine litter • Reduce the amount and harmfulness of marine litter from sea-based sources • Monitor and quantify the contribution of sea-based sources of marine litter • Remove and recycle, in an environmentally sound and resource-efficient way, marine litter found in seas and oceans in the European sea basins • Criteria • Added value compared to state of the art • Mechanism for buy-in from relevant stakeholders • Strategy for long-term sustainability

  12. Coop., inform. data MARINE LITTER IN EMODnet • EMODnet collects, aggregates, standardizes, quality checks data and develops new services to share information and products incl. display services/maps • Expanded to marine litter in March 2017 EMODnet: • Beach litter (nets, bottles etc.) • Seafloor litter (i.e. litter collected by fish trawl surveys) • Micro litter (microplastics) • Databases based on existing approaches: • INSPIRE standards • Beach litter - OSPAR-MCS • Seafloor litter - ICES-DATRAS

  13. International Ocean Governance • Our Ocean 2017 conference in Malta • More than 100 of 437 commitments worth almost 3 billion EURO (0f 7,2) were on fighting marine pollution and plastics, 29 States • Many of the business pledges were on 100% recyclability of packaging (Coca-cola, Pepsi, M&S etc.) • Ocean partnerships to improve coordination and cooperation for better ocean management • 7 priority countries: Canada, USA, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia • G7 – action plan

  14. "Our Ocean 2017" Commitments • 10% of "beach bottle" from recycled beach plastic • $131,000 for measuring flow of trash to ocean • €15 million to advance mechanical recycling of Polyolefins • Plastic packaging to be 100% recyclable and widely recycled by 2022 • Design 100% of packaging to be recyclable and increase recycled content of packaging • The same as Pepsi

  15. Fishermen – part of the solution • “Fishermen are extremely involved in such innovative initiatives to prevent, recover, reuse and recycle of fishing gears. As an example, thanks to their partnership with KIMO, over 500 fishing vessels landed 2500 tonnes of waste from the sea between 2011-2016 which will no longer be affecting the marine environment” • Europêche , 21/03/2018

  16. THANKS 

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