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Nordic Coastal Cleanup

Prevention of marine littering in the Nordic region through awareness raising work and knowledge-based decisions.

Together against marine litter

Visit us on this year's Ocean Rescue Tour 2024

May 3 – Finland, organized by Keep the Archipelago Tidy 
May 4 – Denmark, organized by Keep Denmark Tidy  
May 4 – Norway, organized by Keep Norway Beautiful 
May 19 – Åland, organized by Keep the Archipelago Tidy 
May 24 – Faroe Islands, organized by Rudda Føroyar  
May–October – Saligaatsoq (annual and national clean upday) &  
May 24–28 September – (Coastal cleanup) – Greenland, organized by CSR 
June 8 – Iceland, organized by Worldwide Friends 
June 8 – Sweden, organized by Keep Sweden Tidy.

Member Countries

Norway

Hold Norge Rent

Denmark

Hold Danmark Rent

Contact

Anette Juul Jensen, ajj@holddanmarkrent.dk

Hold Danmark Rent >

Sweden

HSR Logo

Finland & Åland

HSR Finland

Contact

Finland: Julia Jännäri, julia.jannari@pssry.fi

Åland: Kimberly Terry, kimberly.terry@pssry.fi

Pidä Saaristo Siisitinä ry >

Faroe Island

Rudda Foroyar logo

Contact

Beinta Gaard Davidsen, bgd@hotmail.dk  

Annika Arnsteinsdóttir Nielsen, annika.a.nielsen@gmail.com

Rudda Føroyar >

Greenland

CSR Greenland

Iceland

Worldwide Friends Iceland

Contact

Tóti Ivarsson, toti@wf.is

Worldwide Friends >

Our Results

Our findings support findings from both national monitoring projects as well as international projects such as OSPAR. The composition of marine litter in the Nordic countries is in general fairly similar across the region, and compared to international data, fisheries are a larger source of litter in the Nordic region than elsewhere in the world.


83% of the litter found on the reference beaches in 2023 was plastic.
 

Historical data

All Nordic countries Norway Denmark Sweden Finland Åland Faroe Islands Iceland

Nordic beach litter monitoring

Participants

Read our policy brief