Environment: Microplastics, Life Blue Lakes roadshow kicks off in Italy

The Life Blue Lakes roadshow has begun. Theatrical performances, workshops, training courses and field activities where art and science meet to find a common language, to raise public awareness on environmental issues, new pollutants and microplastics dispersion in lakes. The initiative, carried out by ENEA and Legambiente in collaboration with the Dynamis theater company, is part of the European Life Blue Lakes, which has the objective of preventing and reducing the presence of microplastics in Italian lakes, defining shared sampling and analysis protocols and promoting good practices for institutions, local authorities, companies and citizens.

The tour will stage on different dates and locations the theatre performance "Monday", an actual ecological art performance, the laboratory "Dispersi", with activities in the field and in the laboratory on microplastics, a narrative storytelling with comics, meetings, interviews and activities with host communities.

The road show will also go aboard Goletta dei Laghi - the historic Legambiente schooner- acting as spokesperson for the project actions, including dissemination of the Manifesto of the Lakes, territorial monitoring and animation activities focused on water pollution from plastics and microplastics.

In addition to ENEA and Legambiente, also Arpa Umbria, Central Italy Basin Authority, Global Nature Fund, Lake Constance Foundation and Marche Polytechnic University take part in the project.