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Marine littering – need for new measures and regulations Keep Norway Beautiful 5. February 2014 Nancy Strand
Marine littering – need for new
measures and regulations
Keep Norway Beautiful 5. February 2014
Nancy Strand
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Todays agenda
• What is the problem • Public participation• Funding• Prevention• New role for Keep
Norway Beautiful
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• Interest organisation for the waste sector in Norway
• Members are municipalities, intermunicipal and private companies
- Responsible for Keep Norway Beautiful
Waste Management Norway
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Who is responsible?
– Lack of overall responsibility
– Waste – Marine /coastal waters– ….
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Voluntarily actions - mandatory!
– Public participation- coastal ”dugnad”
– Norway is a coastal nation – we want to participate!
– From 2 000 to 10 000 participants in 3 years
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Need for government funding
– Proposed municipal ”clean-up tax”: good, but not enough
– Waste handling needs funding through central government budget
– Additional funds from extended producer responsibility schemes
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Prevention measures
– More knowledge on sources
– What’s measured get’s done…
– Marine littering prevention targets and action plans
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Keep Norway Beautiful-new role?
• Member organisation for municipalities, companies, NGOs
• Coordinate national funds for waste handling, prevention measures and campaigns
• Waste Management Norway: in charge of the transition period
