Details
- Mission objective
- Objective 1a - Protect and restore marine and coastal ecosystems and biodiversityObjective 2a - Prevent and eliminate pollution - litter and microplastics
- Lighthouse
- Mediterranean Sea basin
- Sector
- Environmental protection and regeneration
- Topic(s)
- Marine litterMicroplasticsEnvironmental protectionOcean observation
- Type of action
- Evidence-based knowledge and data and/or access provision to knowledge and data
- Type of knowledge output
- Report (research paper, policy report, white paper, guidelines, case studies, best practices, etc)
- Solution owner
- MARLESS
- Country
- Italy
Description
This report briefly introduces plastics and marine litter. It then explores various methods for plastic disposal and recycling, with a specific emphasis on thermochemical processes, particularly, pyrolysis. The report concludes with an overview of significant European projects addressing challenges in plastic disposal and recycling. The report provides an overview of available technologies and explains how the work outlined in MARLESS could contribute to environmentally friendly, sustainable, and profitable solutions for plastics at the end of their life cycle.
