Plastic waste pathways into the Baltic Sea

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

Marine litter (ML) knows no boundaries and can end up far from its original source. The impacts of ML are environmental, economic and social. In the Central Baltic (CB) ML constitutes of plastic (60%) and packaging material is the dominating fraction (MARLIN 2013). Land-based sources count for 80% of the ML and urban areas are important sources and rivers major pathways feeding the sea with litter. Marine plastic litter may absorb environmental toxins that further accumulate in food webs, and can also leach commercially used harmful additives to the environment. The objective of Blastic is to demonstrate how plastic waste in urban areas finds its ways to the Baltic Sea and becomes marine litter. Blastic will contribute to CB objectives and the result indicator to reduce plastic waste and thereby hazardous substances inflow into the BS from land-based sources. The main outputs of the project will be 1) A new methodology/approach for mapping ML sources and pathways in combination with new field monitoring methods that has potential for being used in other regions and countries. 2) A list of identified and prioritized measures to reduce litter streams from land to sea. 3) Knowledge bank and increased awareness on the environmental (plastic, micro plastics and hazardous substances) and socioeconomic impacts of ML. Local authorities are main stakeholders and citizens and visitors of the CB area the main beneficiaries. The new approach is to take regional and national strategies (Marine Strategy Framework Directive; HELCOM Marine Litter Action Plan) into practice on a local level. Coastal cities have common challenges to reduce litter and the most effective actions will be to target sources on land on a local level. Real data on sources and pathways from 3-4 urban areas across the sea will together present a comprehensive and concrete action list for the whole CB area. Thus Blastic will contribute to a sustainable use of our common resource – the Baltic Sea.

Achievements (EN):

BLASTIC – Less marine litter through mapping and monitoring: BLASTIC developed new methodology and approaches to map sources, impacts and pathways of marine litter. Mapping approaches were combined with monitoring methods to produce the ‘BLASTIC riverine plastic litter monitoring method’ guidelines. Additionally, BLASTIC also produced a list that identifies and prioritises measures to reduce litter streams from land to sea. The list helps municipalities to create local marine litter action plans. The guidelines and the list are accompanied by a socioeconomic report that looks at the impact of marine litter. The project tested its methodology in pilot areas, where concrete plastic marine litter was removed. The pilot along with the created materials served the general aim to increase knowledge and awareness about plastic, micro plastics and hazardous substances among different target groups. As part of this, a knowledge bank (https://www.blastic.eu/knowledge-bank/) was setup.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R2.4. The amounts of nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflows into the Baltic Sea

Expected Outputs (EN):

This project will focus on plastic fractions and its hazardous substances (HS leaching and absorption) with urban areas and rivers as main key players and will be based on previous experience and existing knowledge of marine litter (ML) in the Central Baltic (CB) area. This will contribute to a reduction of the amounts and inflow of plastic ML and thus HS (e.g. phthalates, flame retardants, DDE) in the CB area and the Baltic Sea (BS), in the short (3-4 areas) and long-term (multiple areas). The project is built to survive and expanded after the project is completed, which thus provides all the conditions that ultimately contribute to the programme result indicator R2.4.The results that will lead to overall CB result indicator are: 1) reduced amounts of plastic (about 100 kg during monitoring) and HS in the 3-4 pilot areas; 2) new methodology/approaches that suit respective pilot areas, serves transferability of project results; 3) data from 3-4 pilot areas (1/country) - preventive actions; 4) list of identified and prioritized sources and a selection of actions to reduce ML and HS in the BS with focus on plastic waste and urban areas; 5) increased awareness of ML and HS of plastic ML through campaigns. As an additional result Blastic provides answers to HELCOM RAP on ML Regional Action RL2.Setting concrete measures of ML reduction for the project period is challenging as several measures will be both time-consuming and resource demanding, why the effects cannot be measured within such a short period of time. During the project the pilot areas will develop action plans for reducing plastic ML that set targets and measures that are based on the HELCOMs and national ML action plans. As some of the more “simple” proposed measures will be less demanding, the project group estimate that the participating municipalities will implement measures from the developed action list leading to 5% reduction of plastic ML and HS from the municipalities within the project period.

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Evaluation systems and results Waterways, lakes and rivers Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Reduced nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflows into the Baltic Sea

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06f) promoting innovative technologies to improve environmental protection and resource efficiency in the waste sector, water sector and with regard to soil, or to reduce air pollution

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Stiftelsen Håll Sverige Rent

Address: Högbergsgatan 44 box 4155, 10264 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hsr.se

Total budget: EUR 205 800.47

ERDF budget: EUR 154 350.35

Suomen ympäristökeskus

Name: Suomen ympäristökeskus

Department: Merikeskus/Marine Center

Address: Mechelininkatu 34a, 251 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.syke.fi

Total budget: EUR 153 406.55

ERDF budget: EUR 115 054.91

Tallinna Linnavalitsus

Name: Tallinna Linnavalitsus

Department: Environment Department

Address: Harju 13, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tallinn.ee

Total budget: EUR 50 780.30

ERDF budget: EUR 43 163.26

SA Säästva Eesti Instituut / Stockholmi llinn

Name: SA Säästva Eesti Instituut / Stockholmi llinn

Address: Lai 34, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.seit.ee

Total budget: EUR 102 402.35

ERDF budget: EUR 87 042.00

Nodibinājums "Vides Izglitibas fonds"

Name: Nodibinājums "Vides Izglitibas fonds"

Address: 11 novembra krastmala 35-78, LV 1050 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.videsfond.lv

Total budget: EUR 67 875.70

ERDF budget: EUR 57 694.34

IVL Svenska miljöinstitutet

Name: IVL Svenska miljöinstitutet

Address: Valhallavägen 81, 11427 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ivl.se

Total budget: EUR 188 239.85

ERDF budget: EUR 141 179.89

Turun kaupunki

Name: Turun kaupunki

Department: Environmental division

Address: Puolalankatu 5, 20101 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turku.fi

Total budget: EUR 51 725.25

ERDF budget: EUR 38 793.94

Pidä Saaristo Siistinä ry

Name: Pidä Saaristo Siistinä ry

Address: Puolalankatu 1, 20100 Turku, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.pidasaaristosiistina.fi

Total budget: EUR 196 325.02

ERDF budget: EUR 147 243.76

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Finnish Environment Institute

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Tallinn City Government

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Estonian Institute For Sustainable Development/Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre

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Foundation for Environmental Education Latvia

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IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet

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Turun kaupunki

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Pidä Saaristo siistinä ry

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Keep Sweden Tidy

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Project name (EN): Plastic waste pathways into the Baltic Sea

Project acronym: BLASTIC

Project start date: 2016-01-01

Project end date: 2018-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 016 555.49

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 784 522.45

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 784 522.45.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Sources and pathways of marine litter

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Guidelines for the BLASTIC riverine plastic litter monitoring method

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-01

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Checklist for mapping the potential sources of marine litter and prioritisation tool

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Results and experiences from the plastic litter monitoring in the BLASTIC pilot areas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-01

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Cost-effective combination of measures to reduce the loads of plastic marine litter in urban areas: Case Turku region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

LMLAP guidelines document for municipalities working with the mapping and prioritisation tool

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-01

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Overview of a vailable methods to monitor marine plastic litter

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.blastic.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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