ZAGREB, 12 April 2022 - Participants in a "green" regatta on Monday removed abandoned waste from beaches and the seabed around the island of Šolta.
During the cleanup, over 700 kilos of waste was collected and most of it was plastic, which poses the biggest threat to marine life.
The "Cleaning Sailing Race Regatta", held on that Adriatic island off Split, included 12 divers who removed the waste from the seabed.
The partners in this campaign are the Split-based Sunce association and the Biotherm cosmetics and healthcare items brand.
Gabrijela Medunić Orlić, the executive director of the Sunce association, said that nowadays, public beaches are kept in good shape by local utility companies, however, other beaches are often full of litter and the utilities do not have enough workers to clean them up.
