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Photo: Eco Vitae, Boštjan Mljač

Ongoing marine litter research efforts in Slovenia Andreja Palatinus, IWRS Dr. Andrej Kržan, NIC WP4 Working Group Meeting on Marine Litter 12th May 2014, Athens Greece The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

• Data collecting activities

• Research & Development activities • Raising Awareness • EU Projects with Slovenian partners

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Data collection • Beach litter assessment

Poster

– Modified Clean Coast Index (Alkalay 2007) 2007 – 2013; 3 locations; additional 2 in 2013 (TG ML Guidance) 36 sampling events 1944 samples 79.228 litter items were collected Analysis going on

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Data collection • Beach litter assessment – Monthly cleaning of state owned coast (cca.

16km (1/3 of Slovenian coast)) – 2009-2014

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Research and development • Microplastics seasurface (University of Nova Gorica) • Plastic debris and microplastics in the marine environment

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Poster

Particles found during Semesters II and III in each sample 2000 1800

Nr.of particles found

1600 1400 1200 1000

Semester III

1891

Semester II

800 600 966

400 594 200

472

389 146 50

0 T10

T11

197

151 T12

T13

T14

T15

T16

Sample The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

T17

Research & Development • Research project with students on inputs of microplastics from washing machines Poster

• Waste water sewage treatment plants and their discharge (2013) The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Research & Development • Microplastic in fish stomachs (Marine Biology Station Piran)

• Aquafil Econyl project (Julon Ljubljana Slovenia) recycling of Nylon-6 fishing nets

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Europan Projects • MARLISCO • MARINECLEAN • DEFISHGEAR • RIVERINE PROJECT FUNDED BY EU

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Raising awareness • Eco Vitae – International Coastal Cleanup (2008-)

• Ecologists without borders – Lets do it Slovenia – Lets do it Mediterranean 2014

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Thank you very much for your attention Andreja Palatinus Andreja.palatinus@izvrs.si

The Project is co-founded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)