Decline of marine litter on the European coasts

There was a 29% decrease in the total amount of macro-litter generated along European coasts between 2015-2021. This is according to the report “European Coastline Macro Litter Trends 2015 – 2021”, a European Commission Joint Research Centre document published by the Technical Group on Marine Litter of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive – (MSFD) and contributed to by the OGS National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC).