Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited today the ship “Typhoon” at the port of Piraeus. Since 2019, the ship has been removing waste from all inaccessible island shores of Greece and almost the entire mainland coastline. Currently, it has begun its second round of waste collection. PM Mitsotakis was accompanied by European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius for Environment, Oceans, and Fisheries, where there was a  guided tour led by the president of the Athanasios K. Laskaridis Foundation, Evy Lazou-Laskaridis, during which we was informed about the aims being carried out via the “Typhoon” ship. Interestingly it is spearheading the award-winning environmental program “Typhoon Project” of the Athanasios K. Laskaridis Foundation.

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Earlier, the president of the Foundation had announced, during the Our Ocean Conference the Foundation’s financial commitments towards combating plastic pollution in Greece underling that it  amounts to €10 million for the next 5 years.

The crew of the 72-meter-long ship noted that over the past five years waste collection have been conducted on more than 3,300 beaches, and they have gathered more than 620 tons of debris from the sea.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Commissioner Sinkevičius were also briefed on researched being done on the accumulation of debris in the seas with current focus on the Saronic and Thermaic Gulf.