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Cleanup assignments are now being announced in three of the country’s hardest-hit regions for marine litter: Møre og Romsdal, Trøndelag and Svalbard.
Further north, where weather conditions and distances make everything more demanding, Miljørederiet camps for weeks on end to remove litter from beaches that have never been cleaned before.
Enormous quantities of plastic are cleared from our coastline every year, and for the first time there is now a comprehensive picture of what is actually polluting Norway’s outer coastline, and where it comes from.
With the plastic bag fee paid to The Norwegian Retailers' Environment Fund, Cleanup Norway in Time, a unique Norwegian cleanup programme, has made it possible to remove plastic and waste from as much as 50 per cent of Norway’s outer coastline.
Cleanup Norway in Time brings together professional operators all along the Norwegian coastline to remove marine litter. But Plastjegerne on Smøla do something truly special: they tackle the waste twice.
