Call for projects - For the fourth year running, the Sud Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Region is launching its "For a Plastic-Free Mediterranean" call for projects to support exemplary initiatives and actions to protect natural areas and the Mediterranean Sea from macro-waste and plastic pollution.
The aim of this call for projects is clearly to encourage all stakeholders, from local authorities to associations, businesses and retailers, and the world of research, to take action to preserve our rich and diverse, but threatened, territory. In this way, the scheme is helping to implement the flagship measure of the Climate Plan, "A Zero Plastic Region by 2030".
Every day, France dumps 66 tonnes of plastic waste into Mediterranean waters, and the vast majority of the 130,000 tonnes of micro-plastics produced every year end up in the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to the major environmental problem posed by this pollution, plastic pollution also causes public health and socio-economic problems, the extent of which has yet to be fully appreciated.
Objectives
The regional call for projects will support projects aimed at deploying innovative, environmentally-friendly containers in mobile and collective catering, integrated approaches to protecting catchment areas, new tools or processes for collecting, identifying and tracing plastic waste in natural environments, and study and research projects on pollution by micro-plastics.