Project Description
Project Title: REMEDIES – Co-creating strong uptake of REMEDIES for the future of our oceans through deploying plastic litter valorization and prevention pathways
Duration: 48 months (December 2023 – December 2027)
Donor: European Commission, Horizon Europe
Description:
The purpose of the project is to attract public interest for deploying remedies of our seas.
The efforts to monitor and collect plastic litter, as well as to prevent the generation of litter in the first place, should become. mainstream and part of our lives. REMEDIES is aiming to create a trend on the prevention of plastic through the exploitation of traditional and modern channels and through citizens science and participatory co-creation processes. building a more plastic-conscious society.
The specific objectives of the project :
- To monitor macro- and microplastic waste in 8 Mediterranean areas
- To collect and valorize >422 tons of plastic litter.
- To prevent the further deposition of an equivalent of >61 tons of plastic
- To reach >250,000 people and activate >2,000 citizens.
- To scale and replicate zero-waste innovations in ~70 more sites.