Capitalising good coastal practices and improving policies to prevent marine litter

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2026-03-28

Description

Description (EN):

CAPonLITTER aims at improving policies and practices that can help in preventing marine litter that results from coastal tourism and recreational activities. More specifically, the project will focus on key fractions of waste, such as plastic food and drink containers originating from beach facilities and recreational events, due to improper behaviour of consumers but also to lack of incentives and structures for prevention, collection and recycling of waste. The project involves authorities and organisations from Portugal, Spain, France, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria and Germany, territories in which coastal tourism is a key economic activity, which is not only highly impacted by marine litter but can also put significant pressure on local infrastructures and generate large amounts of unmanaged waste. Through an interregional process of exchange of experiences and mutual learning, partners will explore ways to improve their regional policies and promote the implementation of best practices, with the active participation of key stakeholders. The interregional process will result in 7 regional Action Plans that will set into motion the operationalisation of the lessons learned in two ways: on one hand initiating the implementation of the practices in the territories concerned, through the policy framework the partners operate on; and on the other aligning them with other policy instruments, such as operational programmes and specific structural funds that can finance them. Across these regions, CAPonLITTER will result in various communities of stakeholders commited to zero plastic waste, beaches and coastal events with zero waste management plans in place to prevent marine litter, including significant improvements toward waste prevention, collection and recycle at these coastal sites.

Achievements (EN):

In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 41 policy learning events. It has also identified 30 good practices, produced 7 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 51 people. In terms of results, the project has succeeded in improving 3 regional development policies for a total amount of funds influenced of EUR 1,767,338. 74.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

CAPonLITTER aims at improving policies and practices that can help preventing marine litter which results from tourism and recreational activities at the coast. More specifically, the project intends to: 1. Improve waste performance at critical sites in coastal areas – by improving policies that can regulate and promote better waste performance at beach facilities and services associated to recreational events taking place in coastal areas. Good practices can include: commitments to zero waste coastal events and zero waste beach sites; licencing and regulation of services; performance award schemes, community-based beach management, etc. 2. Improve management of the most critical items (e.g. drink containers) – by improving policies on management of specific packaging items, which are among the most common types of marine litter. Good practices can include: enhance its collection and recycling, such as through deposit-refund schemes; voluntary agreements between producers/retailers/recyclers to reduce packaging; taxes/incentives on specific items or materials, which can also encourage markets of innovative, more sustainable products. 3. Engage key stakeholders, raise awareness and promote responsible conduct among coastal authorities, users and business, in particular related to tourism and recreation at bathing areas. These include e.g. restaurants & snack-bars, shops and retailers at the beach and surrounding areas; coastal events like music and maritime sports festivals - all of which can generate large amounts of plastic waste, such as drink & food containers.

Expected Outputs (EN):

CAPonLITTER will develop 7 regional Action Plans (APs), 1 for each region, containing recommendations related to: a) Improvement of the regional policy instruments (PIs) and how they can support and/or finance practices shared and included in the APs; b) Promotion of policies targeting the 3 specific objectives of the project, and involving different stakeholders: 1. Waste performance at beach area facilities and services associated with recreational events taking place in coastal areas; 2. Prevention and management of specific packaging items, that are among the most common types of ML resulting from coastal tourism and recreation; 3. Decision-making and conduct among coastal authorities, business and other coastal users, in particular, related to tourism and recreation at bathing sites. 8 Partners, supported by an Advisory Partner with a large network of 400 local authorities, will exchange experiences on practices and policies in 7 Interregional Learning Events, involving also key stakeholders from partners’ territories. Further engagement will be achieved through their active participation in 2 workshops in each region and in drafting the APs. As an important dissemination and communication material, the "CAPonLITTER Green Book: Improving Policies for the Prevention of Marine Litter" will be developed and translated in all languages of the project. This document will present the main proposals included in the Action Plans for the improvement of each of the 7 Policy Instruments addressed, as well as specific examples of the learning gained during the exchange of good practices in the ILE, best examples of participatory processes developed, and rest of project activities. Besides that, 15 press releases, 4 international newsletters, updated information on project's and partners' website will ensure wide dissemination. All of this will be sustained by regular steering meetings and periodic progress reports. CAPonLITTER will result in: - Staff and stakeholders with improved capacity resulting from the learning process and exchange of experiences; - Specific provisions within the PIs related to the prevention of ML and in particular the support of new projects in line with the practices identified; - Improved conduct among beach-users, services and business established coastal areas in the region; - Beach communities committed to implement zero-waste management plans; - Promotors and organisers of coastal recreational events committed to implement zero-waste management plans; - Improved waste prevention and management at specific coastal sites with intense tourism activities and consequently reduced “escapes” of litter from these sources to the sea; - Reduced cleaning and disposal costs, including landfilling of waste, and increased separation at source; - A step toward the operationalisation of actions on ML and single-use plastics, well in line with the European policies.

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, aimed at increasing resource-efficiency, green growth and eco-innovation and environmental performance management

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

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department: Department of Environmental Sciencesand Engineering (DCEA)

Address: Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica Caparica, Portugal

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fct.unl.pt/en

Total budget: EUR 305 703.00

ERDF budget: EUR 259 847.55

Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente

Name: Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente

Address: Rua da Murgueira, 9/9A -Zambujal Ap. 7585, 2610-124 Amadora Amadora, Portugal

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.apambiente.pt

Total budget: EUR 132 595.00

ERDF budget: EUR 112 705.75

Zero Waste Europe

Name: Zero Waste Europe

Department: Cities & Communities programme

Address: Nieuwe Keizersgracht 45, 1018 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.zerowasteeurope.eu

Total budget: EUR 75 285.00

ERDF budget: EUR 56 463.75

Асоциация на Българските Черноморски Общини

Name: Асоциация на Българските Черноморски Общини

Department: n.a.

Address: 4, Preslavstr., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 105 415.00

ERDF budget: EUR 89 602.75

IRENA - Istarska Regionalna Energetska Agencija d.o.o.

Name: IRENA - Istarska Regionalna Energetska Agencija d.o.o.

Address: Rudarska 1, 52220 Labin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.irena-istra.hr

Total budget: EUR 119 263.00

ERDF budget: EUR 101 373.55

MerTerre

Name: MerTerre

Address: 28 Rue Fortia, 13001 Marseille, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mer-terre.org

Total budget: EUR 128 568.00

ERDF budget: EUR 109 282.80

Περιφέρεια Κρήτης

Name: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης

Department: Directorate of Environmentand Spatial Planning

Address: ELEFTHERIASSQUARE, 71201 HERAKLION, CRETE, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.crete.gov.gr

Total budget: EUR 144 656.00

ERDF budget: EUR 122 957.60

Umweltbundesamt

Name: Umweltbundesamt

Department: Marine Protection Unit (II 2.3)

Address: Woerlitzer Platz 1, 6844 Dessau-Rosslau, Germany

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 167 418.00

ERDF budget: EUR 142 305.30

Instituto Universitario ECOAQUA - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Name: Instituto Universitario ECOAQUA - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Address: c/ Juan de Quesada nº 30, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Legal status: public

Website: http://ecoaqua.ulpgc.es/

Total budget: EUR 180 431.00

ERDF budget: EUR 153 366.35

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NOVA University Lisbon - NOVA School of Science and Technology

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Portuguese Environment Agency (APA)

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Zero Waste Europe

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Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities

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IRENA - Istarska Regionalna Energetska Agencija d.o.o.

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MerTerre

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Region of Crete

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German Environment Agency

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ECOAQUA University Institute - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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Summary

Project name (EN): Capitalising good coastal practices and improving policies to prevent marine litter

Project acronym: CAPonLITTER

Project start date: 2019-08-01

Project end date: 2023-07-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 359 334.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 147 905.40

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 147 905.40.

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

Action plan for dealing with plastic waste in Labin area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-07-29

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan for the island of Fuerteventura

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan for the prevention and reduction of plastic waste and marine litter in the municipalities of Niebüll, Wangerland and Helgoland (North Sea) and Rostock and Lübeck (Baltic Sea)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-07-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan Marine litter management on Varna coastal areas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-06-25

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

International Learning Event #1 Marseille, France Meeting Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2020-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

International Learning Event #3 Croatia (Online) Meeting Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2020-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional action plan for the region of Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, France

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-07-08

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional action plan of the region of Crete

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2022-06-11

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Summary of previous activities in Germany to prevent and reduce marine litter on a municipal level

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2023-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

The zero waste challenge on Fuerteventura's coastline

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2020-02-29

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Ana Pêgo - Plasticus Maritimus - Presentation on the ILE#4 of the CAPonLITTER Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/caponlitter/

Publication date: 2023-07-31

Document date: 2021-01-26

Languages: en, pt

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2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

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2023-10-31

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258 / 258 (100%)

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2 084 / 2 085 (99.95%)

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