On 3 February 2021, the Kick-off meeting of the MAELSTROM project funded under the European Union Horizon 2020 program and dedicated to the mitigation of the impact of marine litter on coastal ecosystems was held.
MAELSTROM – Smart technology for Marine Litter Sustainable Removable and Management, is a four-year project officially started on 01 January 2021, and coordinated by the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR).
Gees Recycling is in the multidisciplinary partnership that brings together experts from various sectors, ranging from robotics to marine biology, from the recycling of materials and to the involvement of citizens and stakeholders.
The main objective of MAELSTROM is to find solutions to reduce the impact of marine litter in coastal ecosystems, identifying places of accumulation, intercepting floating river litter and removing those deposited on the seabed, especially made up of plastic materials, so to avoid their degradation into microplastics.
