Plastic Busters
The Plastic Busters project, to free the Mediterranean from plastic, supported by numerous partners including ISPRA, is a project that aims to define the macro and microplastics that pollute the Mediterranean, illustrate the consequences they generate on the marine environment and on the health of its fauna and implement the necessary actions to plan, at an international level, interventions to mitigate and reduce the phenomenon.
As part of the Plastic Buster Network, following the research campaign carried out with Nave Astrea in September 2013 and the processing of the data and samples acquired, the article was published “Plastic Debris Occurrence, Convergence Areas and Fin Whales Feeding Ground in the Mediterranean Marine Protected Area Pelagos Sanctuary: A Modeling Approach” in the international journal "Frontiers in Marine Science".