Conferenza “Marine Litter Monitoring, Removal and Circular Economy”

Quinta edizione dell’evento internazionale “Marine Litter Monitoring, Removal and Circular Economy” condotto da Plastic Free Venice in seno all’iniziativa  Missione Oceano dell’Unione Europea.

Program

10.30 – Opening and Institutional Greetings
Introduction by: D.Poletto, VLPF Executive Director
E. Balzi, Active Senior Adviser, EC – DG Research & Innovation EC
J.Kolic, JOINABLE project officer- IPA ADRION JS
D.Strčić, Mayor of the Municipality of Punat, Croatia

Part 1 Marine Litter Monitoring and Assessment
Chairperson: D. Poletto, VLPF
10.50 – Microplastics release detection in the textile washing process (M.C. Cocca, CNR IPCB – HEUROPE REMEDIES)
11.00 – Assessing Macroplastics’ impact on the turrles’s life (A. Camedda, CNR IAS)
11.10 – Chemical fingerprints of the EOL Boats in Venice (T. Cecchi, Institute Montani of Fermo – VLPF Ghost Boat Programme)
11.20 – Monitoring the Impact of fiberglass in the aquatic ecosystem: the case of oysters and mussels in UK (C. Ciocan, School of Applied Sciences – University of Brighton)
11.30 – Q&A

Part 2 Marine Litter clean-up solution’s demonstration
Chiarperson: C. Ciocan, School of Applied Sciences – University of Brighton)
11.45 – Testing the SeaClear20 system in the port of Hamburg (M. Schmidt, Hamburg Port Authority HEUROPE SeaClear20)
12.00 – Fighting Lana river litter in Tirana: River Cleaning into Action (N. Rubini, MOLD – HEUROPE REMEDIES)
12.10 – Start up Innovation in Reducing macro-micro plastics pollution: Vessel X and BioBright Algae (A. Silvestri, MaltaAccelerate – ClimAccelerator Malta)
12.20 – The Po case study for the identification and removal of microplastics (T. Marceta, CNR ISMAR – HEUROPE INSPIRE)
12.30 – Q&A

Part 3 Blue Circular Economy
Chairperson: M. Scarpa, ISDI Group
12.45 – The Ghost Boat programme for the lagoon of Venice and beyond (G. Betteto, Gees Recycling – D. Poletto, VLPF – IPA ADRION JOINABLE project)
13.00 – Success Stories of Women in the Blue Economy (G. Saija, Euknow – EMFAF – WinBlue)
13.10 – Blending blue crabs chitin for new polymers (C. DeCarolis, Biochica – University of Trento)
13.15 – Insights from the blue economy experience of Marche Region (C. Frittelloni, AMAP – Marche Region)
13.25 – Q&A
13.50 – Conclusions