CIRCULAROCEAN Project

CIRCULAROCEAN is a territorial cooperation project that aims to transition marine litter to a circular economy in the Eastern Mid-Atlantic, leveraging synergies, resources, knowledge and capabilities shared between regions. In this way, it tries to solve the enormous environmental challenge of marine litter in a circular economy approach, integrating it into the soil treatment system and proposing new business models based on recycling and recovery.
The project is coordinated by the General Directorate for Combating Climate Change and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands in a consortium of 17 partners from the regions of the Azores, Canaries, Madeira, and the third countries of Cape Verde, Ghana and São Tomé, with capabilities and experience in the topics you cover.
CIRCULAROCEAN is based on a collaborative, participatory and open process between the different regions that participate to provide a common and sustainable strategy with a circular approach, where knowledge transfer activities, pilot and demonstration actions on the application of monitoring and management technologies waste data, new circular business models, exchange of good practices and experiences in recycling and recovery, and prevention actions in activities with an impact on waste, such as tourism, fishing or ports.