COP – Circular Ocean-bound Plastic

COP – Circular Ocean-bound Plastic

25.10.2024

Operation of Strategic Importance (OSI)

Lead partner

Name: CLEAN Cluster
https://www.cleancluster.dk/
Address: Clean Nørre Havnegade 43, 5. 6400 Sønderborg
Region/Subregion: Sjælland
Country: Denmark


Project Partners Member States

DE, DK, PL, SE


Name: City of Gdansk - Gdansk Sports Centre
https://sportgdansk.pl/
Address: ul. Traugutta 29, Gdańsk 80-221
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: The Fondation Plast Center Denmark
https://plastcenter.dk/
Address: Niels Bohrs Vej 6 DK-6700 Esbjerg
Country: Denmark

Name: Ocean Plastic Forum
https://oceanplasticforum.dk/
Address: Sankt Annæ Plads 16 1250 Copenhagen K
Region/Subregion: Sjælland
Country: Denmark

Name: Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)
https://www.io-warnemuende.de/
Address: Seestrasse 15 D-18119 Rostock
Region/Subregion: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Country: Germany

Name: University of Rostock
https://www.uni-rostock.de/
Address: Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, Rostock, 18059
Region/Subregion: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Country: Germany

Name: University of Gdańsk
https://ug.edu.pl/
Address: Bażyńskiego 8, 80-309 Gdańsk
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland

Name: Sustainable Business Hub Scandinavia AB
https://www.sbhub.se/
Address: Nordenskiöldsgatan 24, Malmö 211 19
Region/Subregion: Skåne
Country: Sweden

Name: Gdansk Water Foundation
https://www.gfw.pl/
Address: ul. Równa 19/21 Budynek B, Gdańsk 80-067
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland


Category of intervention

075


Acronym: COP

Project partners Member States: DK, SE, DE, PL

Ocean plastic is a global pollution problem which heavily impacts aquatic marine life and diminishes biodiversity, e.g., through entanglement, toxicity flows of hazardous substances, and plastic ingestion. Plastics, and residual waste fractions, entering the South Baltic Sea (SBS) stems from both land- and sea-based sources, which over time dissolves into micro litter plastics. 80% of plastic waste ending up in the SBS stems from land-based sources, including urban areas.
The focus of the project will be to identify the problems and opportunities of collecting, reusing and/or recycling ocean-bound plastic waste. Bilaterally, these efforts will be supported by identifying the blue and green SMEs within the Region, including relevant environmental NGOs, knowledge institutions/technical universities and maritime clusters, which will either identify and/or co-create innovative collection methodologies of land- and sea-based flows of plastic waste.
This approach will improve the awareness level of the ecosystem challenges within the SBS across the quadruple helix. As an added value, it will also stimulate the innovative levels of blue and green SMEs within the program region, as how to collect and recycle macro litter plastic waste, which will contribute to the longevity and securing usage of the macro litter plastic waste, post-collection.

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