The Madeira Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Action (Portugal) is promoting a clean-up campaign from 21 to 29 September 2024. The action involves residents and all who want to join. It will be carried out from 9h to 13h in one of the accumulation sites of Madeira Island (Porto da Cruz seafront), in the scope of International Coastal Cleanup Day and the Interreg Cooperation Day 2024.
This is one of the activities that the Regional Directorates proposed to implement the project Free LitterAT, supported by Interreg Atlantic Area and designed to find new solutions for preventing and reducing the litter in coastal communities of Atlantic regions.
Since the Atlantic Basin is a natural border of different European regions with Porto da Cruz seafront as a symbolic location, and the #InterregDay2024 is about #EUValuesOvercomingBorders – reminding people of the progress made by the European Union in removing physical and mental barriers between countries –, the clean-up campaign takes part of the programme activities of Interreg Cooperation Day 2024.
The participation of volunteers will allow them to raise consciousness for micro litter like lost fishing gear and tiny bits of plastic. Attendance is subject to registration on the online form.
Free LitterAT is a partnership of 14 entities from France, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, leader by Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR (Galicia, ES), focusing on a big problem called marine litter. To tackle this issue, they're taking a comprehensive approach that includes preventing litter, keeping an eye on it, and cleaning it up when possible.