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We usually understand islands as desolate regions. Due to increasing demand to relax in a natural environment, islands, especially small ones, seasonally turn into overpopulated areas. There is a modest stock of literature discussing the topic of sea litter in the Adriatic islands' coast landscapes. Permanently inhabited islands have well regulated waste management of the communal trash (Island Act, 1999 ; 2002 ; 2018 ; National Island Development Programme, 1997). The niche is allochthonous litter accumulated on the coasts by the sea currents and winds. Solid waste management is supposed to be one of the most preferred environmental issues (European Green Deal, 2019). The study areas were islands Lošinj (74, 36 km2) and Vis (89, 72 km2). The former is located in the north and the latter in the middle Adriatic region, they have in common an irresistible attractiveness in many people's point of view. Consequently tourism is the main driving force in terms of the present and future development. At the same time, the registered data on sea litter, deposited on the islands' shore, proved the concern on the environmental burden of the main economic activities named. The methodology for the evaluation of the coast zone's litter deposit was established by the University of Zadar and Faculty of Environment in Velenje. Concepted as holistic indicators' approach (integral geographical model), it was preliminary carried out in the Kornati archipelago in 2018. Checking the integrated indicators' geographical approach as an evaluation method we registered 19 litter locations at Vis coast area and 8 on Lošinj island. The prevailing sea litter type on average was biomass origin (agricultural litter, bulky wood) on both islands: Vis (51, 1 %) and Lošinj (55, 0 %). More worrying is the share of plastic litter: 48, 8 % on Lošnj and a bit more on Vis island (53, 7 %). The geolocation could be an answer that we recorded much less litter on Lošinj coasts (17, 7 m3) than in Vis bays (93 m3). |
