Marine and River Litter Elimination New Approach

For years, District government Burgas unites various institutions and works actively with volunteers for a cleaner nature and a better living environment.

In 2020, the active work and cooperation continue. District government Burgas together with representatives of RIEW, Basin Directorate and volunteers from the regionstart a summer campaign to clean the wetlands around Burgas and the polluted areas on the southern Black Sea coast - Lake Vaya, Gorno Ezerovo and other wetlands around Burgas.

Among the first to respond to the invitation to clean the shores of wetlands in the region of Burgas are representatives of NGO "Green Strandzha" - a partner in the project Marlena BSB 139 "Marine and River Litter Elimination New Approach " (working against the pollution in the Black Sea, rivers, protected areas and nature reserves near the Black Sea basin) and the Via Pontica Foundation, which successfully implements the RedMarLitter BSB 552 project - "Innovative techniques and methods for reducing marine litter in the coastal areas of the Black Sea."The two non-governmental organizations together with the Municipality of Malko Tarnovo, a partner in the MARLENA project and the Council for Tourism Development in the Municipality of Nessebar, a partner in the ZEWSGES project, signed a Memorandum of cooperation in 2020.

The platform developed within the MARLENA project proved to be a very useful tool through which anyone who identifies pollution can initiate a campaign to clean up or eliminate unregulated landfills.

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In line with the overall objective of these projects, to improve the well-being of the Black Sea Basin region through sustainable growth and environmental protection, the partners took a number of joint actions and showed that good cooperation leads to more visible results and increases the added value of projects, funded by the Joint Operational Program "Black Sea Basin 2014-2020".

/2020-07-18/