Beach litter in Mediterranean coastal dunes: an insight on the Adriatic coast (central Italy)

Francesco, Maria Carla de; Carranza, María Laura; Stanisci, Angela

doi:10.1007/s12210-018-0740-5

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“…The removal activity can be subdivided into two main categories, such as removal activity performed by trawling or removal, which are performed through a driving survey. Trawling nets are used on deep soft seafloor, and for rocky floors, scuba or snorkel drivers are employed (de Francesco et al 2018 ).…”

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Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Pollution and Effective Management

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The present world is now facing the challenge of proper management and resource recovery of the enormous amount of plastic waste. Lack of technical skills for managing hazardous waste, insufficient infrastructure development for recycling and recovery, and above all, lack of awareness of the rules and regulations are the key factors behind this massive pile of plastic waste. The severity of plastic pollution exerts an adverse effect on the environment and total ecosystem. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of plastic waste generation, as well as its effect on the human being and ecological system, is discussed in terms of source identification with respect to developed and developing countries. A detailed review of the existing waste to energy and product conversion strategies is presented in this study. Moreover, this study sheds light on sustainable waste management procedures and identifies the key challenges to adopting effective measures to minimise the negative impact of plastic waste.

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“…However, periodical (e.g., seasonal or after extreme meteo-marine events) monitoring should be carried out to obtain patterns of litter deposition useful to defining further clean-up projects (i.e., litter removal) [16,18].…”

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“…Clean-ups can be considered real conservation actions since beach litter may impact many ecosystem components (e.g., plants, invertebrates, reptiles and seabirds that can be trapped, poisoned or suffocated) [4,9,15,16]. Besides, these actions can charm and amuse many citizens and technical operators (for example, in LTER-Long Term Ecological Research sites [17,18]), if compared to other activities of nature conservation, planned to respond to more complex threats such as fires, poaching, and invasive species, which require significant amounts of financial resources, professional operators, policies and technology [19]. Even considering their execution ease, clean-ups need to follow specific criteria and clear planning, scheduled by project managers.…”

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Small Environmental Actions Need of Problem-Solving Approach: Applying Project Management Tools to Beach Litter Clean-Ups

Battisti¹,

Poeta²,

Romiti

et al. 2020

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Clean-ups can be considered real conservation actions since beach litter may impact many ecosystem components. However, although these actions are quite easy to carry out, we think that they need to follow specific criteria and clear planning. Contrariwise, an unplanned clean-up could lead to counter-productive—or even harmful—consequences to the fragile dune ecosystem; e.g., excessive trampling and/or extreme sand removal. Here, we defined a road map for implementing beach clean-ups according to the logic of problem solving and project management, also adding a flow chart. More particularly, we subdivided the clean-up project into different steps as follows: context analysis, input and planning, process, monitoring (outputs and outcomes) and adaptation.

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“…24 national strategies for promoting prevention and legality are necessary. Instead, possible local measures to preserve embryo dunes across the Adriatic coast include avoiding beach levelling, promoting the manual cleaning of the seashore litter rather than mechanical beach cleaning (Poeta et al,2015;De Francesco et al, 2018) and governing touristic movement. Experimental research in Central Italy on foredunes evidenced significant biodiversity recovery thanks to enclosures that preserved dune morphology (Santoro et al, 2012b;Prisco et al, 2016).…”

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Not just a sandy beach. The multi-service value of Mediterranean coastal dunes

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Marzialetti

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Beach litter in Mediterranean coastal dunes: an insight on the Adriatic coast (central Italy)

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Pollution and Effective Management

Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Pollution and Effective Management

Small Environmental Actions Need of Problem-Solving Approach: Applying Project Management Tools to Beach Litter Clean-Ups

Not just a sandy beach. The multi-service value of Mediterranean coastal dunes

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