Plastic Free Entertainment Cruises and Water Sport Activities
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This initiative is developed to support the overall aim of BeMed to
address the challenge of a Mediterranean plastic free. The focus of the initiative
is to disseminate best practices, in regard to plastic waste management and
implement alternative actions in order to change social behaviour and the
behaviour of the tourism industry regarding the unsustainable use of plastics.
The stakeholders of the initiative will be cruisers, boat owners, water sport
owners, employees and users, tour operators, municipalities, port authorities
and marina management.
Actions implemented in
the initiative will include:
- Campaigns to
raise awareness regarding plastic pollution in the sea;
- Informing port
and marina authorities, boat and water sports owners, cruisers and water sports
users on regulations and ways to implement them in order to safeguard the sea
from plastic pollution;
- Organizing
boat workshops/edutainment to inform the cruisers on sustainable practices and
minimization of plastic usage;
- Organizing
workshops for tour operators and their representatives on plastic pollution and
their impact in the Mediterranean Sea;
- Inform and
engage cruisers to reduce the use of plastic during their cruising and sea
entertainment activities (water sports).
- Training the
owners and users of water sports activities on plastic pollution and engaging
them into plastic free campaign.
