The overall project goal is to reduce the proportion of waste from coastal tourism in North-African states (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunesia), and to recycle and reuse unavoidable waste in order to sustainably reduce the overall amount of marine and beach littering. Major activities are the development and implementation of a coastal monitoring program; the definition of a pollution baseline as well as marine litter pollution assessments; the evaluation of solid waste management and current mitigation measures; the analysis, implementation and monitoring of legal, organizational, financial and technical solutions and measures with local, regional and national actors; and the provision of capacity building and awareness rising in the regions.