Marine and River Litter Elimination New Approach

The project entitled "Marine and River Litter Elimination New Approach Project (MARLENA)" focuses on the need for sustained cooperation so that pollution is ultimately controlled and, hopefully, diminished in the Black Sea region; as well as in rivers / rivers flowing into the sea, reserves and protected coastal areas riparian to the Black Sea area.

Less than a hundred kilometers are from the mouth of the Prut River Danube to the Delta, from where, after another 60-70 km, the Danube waters united and those of the Siret reach the Black Sea by the three arms of St. Gheorghe, Sulina and Chilia.

Along the right bank of the Danube, but also across the Delta, there are many villages, but also the most important urban centers, namely Tulcea (gate to the Delta) and Sulina (at the Sulina branch in the sea).

All these localities as well as their inhabitants are the direct beneficiaries of the resources in the area but at the same time contributing to the pollution of the Black Sea; at the three urban centers with a large population the villages are added, and thus they reach together 5-600,000 p.e. Economic activities, agriculture, cattle breeding, fishing all contribute to the welfare of the inhabitants but also to the pollution of the Black Sea due to poor management of waste, water in general, and especially wastewater, including households.

Marine, chemical and physical pollution, but especially that caused by floating wastes, which eventually floods in the bottom of the water, has increased in recent years with devastating effects on Romanias coastal area as well as on the territorial and marine waters. With a water catchment area of ​​approximately 1.9 million km2 (about one-third of Europes mainland), the Black Sea has become extremely vulnerable to the pressures generated by land-based human activities as well as those related to navigation.

Overburdening the coastal and marine environment of the Black Sea with marine litter is one of the most urgent but also difficult environmental problems in the region, constantly extending throughout the basin.

/2018-11-12/