Marine litter strategy for Scotland.

The marine litter strategy has the purpose to develop current and future measures to ensure that the amount of litter entering the marine and coastal environment is minimised to bring ecological, economic and social benefits.
The marine litter strategy sets out five strategic directions and a range of measures to help deliver the strategy: Strategic Direction 1 – Improve public and business attitudes and behaviours around marine and coastal litter, in co-ordination with the national litter strategy. Strategic Direction 2 – Reduce marine and coastal based sources of litter, in coordination with land sourced litter being reduced by the national litter strategy. Strategic Direction 3 – Contribute to a low carbon economy by treating ‘waste as a resource’ and seizing the economic and environmental opportunities associated with the Zero Waste Plan. Strategic Direction 4 – Improve monitoring at a Scottish scale and develop measures for strategy evaluation. Strategic Direction 5 – Maintain and strengthen stakeholder co-ordination at the UK, EU and international scales.