ON THE MOVE i CLEAN UP THE COASTLINE IN THE NORTH

we will do a survey for a monitoring of marine litter in several places on the coastline.We will clean certain areas (position recorded by GPS on our CUC map ) in different parts of Iceland and collect all the trash on the beach and classify it in a standard form. We will make photos of the coastline,This project provides us the standard methodology needed to produce some serious data. At the end, we will create a scientific data useful to know more about the pollution in the oceans and on the coastline. Take a look at http://cleanupthecoastline.wordpress.com/ for more information.The marine area around Iceland is regarded as one of the cleanest of the world. Nevertheless, marine litter such as persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals or hydrocarbons is constantly contaminating Iceland s shore. A large-scale surface of the Icelandic coastline is concerned by this pollution and some beaches are even fully covered by trash, mainly caused by poorly managed landfills close by.