Lixo marinho: Os suspeitos do costume na costa de Vila do conde

Abstract

For the eighth consecutive year, the CMIA of Vila do Conde works as a Blue Center for the Blue Flag Program, promoting several actions to raise awareness and environmental education during the bathing season in the municipality of Vila do Conde. Plastics are the great scourge and to help raise awareness of this cause, the CMIA revitalized the activity “The Suspects of Custom”, which aims to collect and identify the most frequent waste on each beach, and reflection on their origins, impacts and ways to reduce them. This activity took place from April to July 2018, with 10 cleaning actions and about 200 volunteers, with the collection of about 95kg of the usual suspects (waste). The results showed that the main suspects on our coast are: cotton swabs, cigarette butts, straws, plastic bottles and fragmented plastics. The reflection on possible contributions for the reduction of marine litter points to the word REFUSE.