Good Karma Projects asistió los días 30 y 31 de agosto al festival de cine documental sobre surf y sostenibilidad Wipe Out Film Festival presentando el corto documental #ChasingPellets: la expedición en busca de pellets de plástico en el Mediterráneo y los avances del proyecto MEDPELLETS. El festival ha contado con una amplia propuesta cultural […]
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The MEDPELLETS project was launched in early 2022 and we have been analysing the state, dynamics and impact of plastic pellet emissions in the Western Mediterranean for 7 months. So far, the analysis of this contamination has been based on sampling carried out at various points along the coast of Tarragona and the Balearic Islands.
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Throughthe project Medpellets, and in collaboration with the Salou City Council, we offer every Tuesday and Wednesday in August, from 18:00 to 19:00, at the Nautical Base of Playa de Ponent (Salou), free workshops environmental education to promote care and respect for the environment, especially the marine environment and the beach. In these workshops, for
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Marta Sugrañes, bióloga y oceanógrafa, realizando un muestreo de microplásticos The MEDPELLETS project gave us the opportunity to initiate an eight-month study about the state and dynamics of plastic pellet pollution in the Western Mediterranean. This study could not have been carried out without our scientific team of 7 people (Marta Sugrañes, Oriol Uviedo, Anna
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Marta Sugrañes presentando los avances del proyecto MEDPELLETS en el acto sobre el MEDIO LITORAL en la URV de Tarragona el 14 de junio. El 14 de Junio se celebró el acto sobre el Medio Litoral en el Aula Magna del Campus Cataluña de la URV (Tarragona), acto organizado conjuntamente con la Área de Medio Ambiente de la Oficina
Jordi Oliva en la sesión MARLICE4PEOPLE de MARLICE 2022 On 18, 19 and 20 May, Seville hosted the 2nd International Forum on Marine Litter and the Circular Economy MARLICE, with the aim of developing strategies to move towards a waste-free ocean. Jordi Oliva Farriol, Co-founder and Project Manager of Good Karma Projects was invited to
On 24 and 30 April more than 192 volunteers joined the Good Karma Day in Playa Cavallería (Menorca) and in La Pineda (Tarragona) in a citizen science action to help us carry out macrosampling of plastic pellets. Volunteers on Playa Cavallería on 24 April. Photo by Xavi Menoca. Volunteers on La Pineda (Vila-Seca) on 30 April.
192 volunteers and more than 1,930,600 plastic pellets collected at Good Karma Days Read More »
Have you found plastic pellets? Share the location Since 2018, at Good Karma we have been studying and denouncing the pollution caused by plastic pellets in the environment, and more specifically, in the Mediterranean and the coast of Tarragona. Now is your chance to get involved and help us identify other locations around the country
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Medpellets is a project developed by Good Karma Projects with the collaboration of the Biodiversity Foundation (Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge), through the Pleamar Program, co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). After three years of hard work by our team of qualified volunteers (biologists, oceanographers, engineers…) we are
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