São Paulo – The WWF North Africa-Tunisia organization launched the “Adopt a Beach MED” program, according to news released this Thursday (27) by the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) news agency. The goal is to monitor and collect data on marine litter and raise awareness about plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea.
The campaign is a collaboration between WWF offices in Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey, three Mediterranean countries. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is dedicated to preserving the environment.
The program will encourage volunteers, schools, and organizations to adopt beaches to monitor waste emissions and collect data on the waste found. The information will form a regional platform for combating plastic waste pollution.
The campaign was already launched in Greece in 2021 and expanded to Turkey and Tunisia. In two years, groups of volunteers adopted 149 beaches and collected over 185,000 pieces of litter along approximately 15,000 meters of coastline.
Most of the garbage collected on Greek beaches was plastic; 84%. Half of the trash found consisted of cigarette butts, small pieces of plastic, straws, bottle caps, and small pieces of polystyrene.
According to WWF, Tunisia is one of the Mediterranean countries most affected by plastic pollution.
Translated by Elúsio Brasileiro
