The cleaning service of the coast in the Balearics withdraws 36,8 tons of waste in 2025

Mallorca leads the recollection with 17.520 kg, followed by Eivissa with 9.598 kg, Menorca with 6.019 kg and Formentera with 3.667 kg.

The Cleaning Service of the Coast, under the authority of the Sea and Water Cycle Counselling through Ports de les Illes Baleares, has closed the 2025 season with a balance of 36.804,57 waste kilos withdrawn of the archipelago's coasts, which entails an increase of 32% regarding the previous year.

The campaign, developed between May and September ---five months of effective work---, has aimed to keep the environmental quality and the safety in coastal and portuary areas of the islands. In total, the ships have worked for 153 days, with a daily mean of 269,39 waste kilos collected.

The device has had 23 boats, eight of them of coastal type and fifteen of beach type, one more than in 2024, with the incorporation of a new entity in the bay of Alcúdia.

The beach boats have withdrawn  20.462,05 kilos, with 162,54 daily kilos on average, while the coastal ones has withdrawn 16.342,53 kilos, with 106,85 daily kilos on average. 

Mallorca leads the recollection with 17.520 kg, followed by Eivissa with 9.598 kg, Menorca with 6.019 kg and Formentera with 3.667 kg. In Mallorca, the municipalisties with most volume have been Calvià (2.362,15 kg), Andratx (2.011,95 kg) and Alcúdia (1.960,10 kg), followed by Palma (1.678,75 kg), Felanitx (1.647,30 kg) and Santanyí (1.084,60 kg).

In Menorca, Ciutadella has registered the highest number with 1.795,20 kg, followed by Maó (1.235,48 kg) and Ferreries (1.004,70 kg). In Eivissa, Sant Josep has led the recollection with 3.716,20 kg, in front of Sant Antoni (3.621,85 kg), while Formentera has summed a total of 3.666,90 kg.

Regarding the waste types, plkastic has been the dominating material, with 44,27% of the total, followed by wood (33,67%), vegetation (8,40%), other materials (8,38%), organic matter (5,00%) and oils (0,28%).

During the season, the service has attended 24 specific warning, of which 18 came from 112 and Maritime Rescue and 6 of institutions or individuals. The incidences included fuel discharges, trunks withdrawings or adrift ships and assitance in maritime safety cases.

The service has also kept its collaboration with scientific organisms, such as the SOCIB, the CSIC and the Oceanographic Institute, that benefited from their labour to carry out samplings, microplastics and jellyfish studies in the waters of the archipelago.