European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy

Baltic Sea Region a frontrunner in battling plastic waste in the seas. In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first-ever ‘European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy’. The macro-regional EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) is already in full speed fighting against plastic marine litter. The BLASTIC project, an EUSBSR flagship under policy area ‘Hazards’, aims to reduce plastic waste and, thereby, the inflow of hazardous substances into the Baltic Sea by mapping and monitoring the amounts of litter in the aquatic environment.