Upcycling the Oceans Spain
Upcycling the Oceans Spain was started in September 2015 as a pilot project by the ECOALF Foundation in which 9 fishing ports participated. A year later, ECOEMBES joined this project to extend its activity along the entire Spanish coast and guarantee the correct management of all the recovered waste. In 2020 GENERALI joins the movement against marine litter supporting this initiative through GENERALI Index Evolution. (Read more here)
Currently, Upcycling the Oceans has managed to involve more than 2,500 fishermen in 40 Spanish ports, all of which have together managed to extract more than 500 tonnes of garbage from our seas.
550 fishing vessels involved
500 tonnes of marine debris recovered from the bottom of the sea
2015
2019
Results
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| TOTAL WASTE (T) | 23 | 54 | 113 | 140 | 152 |
| % PET | 6% | 6% | 11% | 10% | 9% |
| PORTS | 9 | 9 | 32 | 37 | 40 |
| BOATS | 165 | 165 | 462 | 546 | 550 |
| FISHERMEN | 743 | 743 | 2079 | 2534 | 2600 |
1.Coruña2.Llança3.Port de la Selva4.Roses5.Palamós6.Blanes 7.Arenys de mar
8.Barcelona
9.Vilanova i la Geltru
10.Tarragona
11.Cambrils
12.LAmetilla
13.LAmpolla
14.Sant Carles de la Rápita
15.Les Cases dAlcanar
16.Vinaroz
17.Benicarló
18.Peñíscola
19.Castelló
20.Burriana
21.Valencia
22.Cullera
23.Gandía
24.Denia
25.Javea
26.Calpe
27.Altea
28.Villajoyosa
29.Santa Pola
30.San Pedro del Pinatar
31.Cartagena
32.Mazarrón
33.Águilas
34.Barbate
35.Puerto de Santa María
36.Sanlucar de Barrameda
37.Chipiona
38.Corme
39.Celeiro
40.Burela
* These data correspond to the year 2019, at the end of the year they will be updated.
