HELCOM - 13. Treffen der Gruppe für nachhaltige landwirtschaftliche Praktiken

The kick-off workshop was arranged to formally launch new CCB's project on microplastic in the Baltic Sea.

The agenda of the workshop is contained here.

The List of participants is contained here.

Selected presentations are available at the links below:

1. CCB's Marine Litter campaign 2015


2. Implementation of HELCOM Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter


3. Lithuanian Fund for Nature work on microplastic


4. Polish Ecological Club current and planned activities on microplastic


5. Friends of the Baltic work on microplastic


6. Finnish Society for Nature and Environment work on microplastic


7. Proposal for a methodology on monitoring of riverine inputs of microplastic

Additional information on monitoring of microplastics

• Guide to microplastic identification


• Monitoring litter in rivers

Concrete ways to reduce microplastic from stormwater and sewage discharges

Collection of useful reports on the topic

• HELCOM Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter, 2015


• Plastic in cosmetics, UNEP 2015


• Marine Litter: Vital graphics, 2016


• The New Plastic Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2016


• Marine Littering and Sources in Nordic Waters, NCM, 2015


• Swedish sources and pathways for microplastics to the marine environment, IVL, 2016


• Study to support the development of measures to combat a range of marine litter sources, EC, 2016


• Sources of microplastic- pollution to the marine environment, MEPEX, 2014


• Marine Anthropogenic Litter, Springer, 2015