Beach and park cleanups in Barcelona
Barcelona is where Silent Plogging starts. We clean the beaches and parks of the city with silent disco headphones and three live DJs, and the cleanups are free for everyone.
Upcoming cleanups in Barcelona
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Platja del Bogatell
Free
Why Barcelona
26.1 kg
of plastic per km of coast, every day
build up on the shore of Barcelona, our first city: the second-highest figure in the Mediterranean. [2]
60
million cigarette butts
collected in international coastal cleanups since 1986. They are the most common item of all. [3]
+40%
more litter in summer
reaches the Mediterranean when more than 200 million tourists visit its coasts. [1]
The filter is made of plastic fibres and holds nicotine and other toxic substances that leak into the water. Since 2022 smoking has been banned on all ten Barcelona beaches, but a butt dropped in a street or a park can still reach the sea with the rain. [5]
Sources
- [1] WWF, Out of the Plastic Trap (2018)
- [2] WWF, Stop the Flood of Plastic (2019), via Ecoticias
- [3] Ocean Conservancy, International Coastal Cleanup report (2023)
- [4] Novotny et al., Tobacco Control (2011), citing Slaughter et al.
- [5] Público, Barcelona smoke-free beaches (2022)
- [6] Plogging, Wikipedia
Results in Barcelona
The results of the first cleanup will appear here, weighed bag by bag.
1 place in 1 city
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- Cleaned
- Upcoming