Category: The Cleaning of the Sea and Beaches
Updated on October 13, 2021
Cigarette Butts – a dangerous waste for marine life
While the consequences of consuming tabacco on human health are widely known, the environmental damages caused by cigarette butts thrown away in nature are rarely addressed. As cigarette butts are not biodegradable, they pile up in vast …
Updated on June 8, 2018
WE CLEANED THE SEIANO BEACH
On Wednesday, 4th of April, after our usual Italian lesson, we went to Seiano, in Vico Equense, with the purpose of cleaning the beach. Stefano, a long time partisan and friend of the project M.A.R.E. invited us. There …
Posted on August 7, 2017
Garbage in the sea: Ieranto Bay.
The main task in project MARE is to maintain and monitor Ieranto bay. This includes a diverse range of tasks which includes cleaning the sea and the beaches. With changing winds and currents the amount of garbage in …
Updated on July 17, 2017
Patrolling the ‘Yellow’ Zone: “Campo Boe”
Every year, from the 15th of June to 30th of September, the park operates and maintains 27 yellow buoys in a yellow zone (meaning you cannot anchor there) near Nerano. The buoys themselves were installed to protect the …
Updated on November 18, 2017
First beach clean-up of the season in CRAPOLLA!
Friday 24th of March was beach cleaning day, we had a great adventure and an amazing day as expected from project MARE. After the daily Italian class, we got together with Domenico, Francesca, Francesco, and his lovely dog …
Updated on October 4, 2016
“Puliamo il Mondo 2016”
“Puliamo il mondo” it is the biggest initiative of the environmental volunteers organized in Italia by Legambiente in collaboration with ANCI, ministry of environment, ministry of education, and ministry of university and scientifically researches. Every last week of September of …
Updated on October 18, 2016
A cleaning of Tordigliano beach
Tordigliano, in the municipality of Vico Equense and just a few miles from Positano, is one of the wildest and most beautiful beaches of the Amalfi coast. Off its shore you can only see the sea and the …
Updated on October 18, 2016
Trash pirates
The Marine Park of Punta Campanella has also participated in a waste collection on the coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula. By boat and by using nets we were collecting all garbage we found on the sea surface. This …
Updated on October 18, 2016
Diving to clean the bottom of the sea
First of all thank you! Thank you for taking care of our seas, for recognizing the importance they have and for showing to the rest of us how easy is to have a positive impact on our environment. …
