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Legambiente’s Clean Up the Med - May 2008

Italian Environmental organisation and Clean Up the World member, Legambiente, will be hosting the 8th annual Clean Up the Med campaign in May this year.

Since 1995, more than 280 environmental organisations, hotel chains, local councils and schools from many different countries: Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Jordan, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Syria, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey have participated in the event.

The main aim of the Clean Up the Med campaign is to raise awareness and educate as well as physically remove the rubbish that accumulates on the seabed, on beaches and on most coastlines around the Mediterranean.

A large number of volunteers equipped with gloves, rakes and plastic bags will clean up more than 800 beaches along the Mediterranean shores and remove many tonnes of rubbish.

In the course of this year, particular attention will be given to the issues of land based pollution and marine pollution due to oil spills.

Clean Up the World members have registered to participate in this initiative.

Click here to learn more about the Legambiente organisation.

As ecosystems and bio-regions transcend national borders Clean Up the World and its member organisations are increasingly collaborating with other organisations to conduct regional initiatives.

Click here to learn more about Clean Up the World - Regional Initiatives and how you can get involved.