XII Edition International Clean-Up and Marine Litter Monitoring Day

Background
Venice Lagoon Plastic Free, within the EU projects Remedies and INTERREG JOINABLE and in synergy with the WWF Plastic Smart Cities programme (to which Venice is a signatory), is organising—together with VERITAS and the SeaClear 2.0 Community of Practice for Venice, a first core group of associations and start-ups committed to the area’s sustainable development and blue-economy promotion (WWF Venezia, Legambiente Venezia)—the 12th edition of the “Venice Lagoon Plastic Free” clean-up and marine-litter
monitoring day. The initiative is also listed among the collateral events of the Venice Boat Show.

Proposal
As part of World Environment Day, the event calls for a broad mobilisation: a clean-up action and a dedicated marine-litter monitoring session covering Venice’s historic centre and the Lido beach (Alberoni).
The clean-up targets all removable waste—especially plastic debris accidentally or deliberately discarded—that invades vast lagoon areas and waterways on the mainland fringe.
The initiative is environmental, intercultural, civic, and educational, with no political affiliation and open to every individual or association, regardless of nationality or religion, provided they respect the operating guidelines and the broader principles of environmental and cultural-heritage protection, integration, and social inclusion. Activities comply fully with regulations issued by local authorities and the municipal waste-management company VERITAS.

09:30
Venice: participants will gather at the Sant’Alvise pier. Collection materials and tools will be distributed. Volunteers will receive training from VLPF on how to work safely and contribute synergistically to the
clean-up and monitoring activities.
10:00
Lido Alberoni: participants will meet in the parking lot of the Alberoni Bathing Establishment. Volunteers will be equipped and trained by the WWF association on how to work safely.
12:00 Closure of Activities

Please note: the clean-up connects to the WWF Plastic Smart Cities programme (Venice is a signatory)
and will be supported by two dedicated apps developed by the EU projects Remedies and SeaClear 2.0