The Baltic Sea

With our consumption habits exhilarating more and more, a focus on local and sustainable consumption is needed. The Baltic Sea offers therefore the perfect resource: algae.

Beach with sand dunes in the foreground, calm ocean water, and a pier extending into the water under an overcast sky.

A close-up of bird droppings underneath a wooden structure, with a black drainage pipe and white pipe visible.

Black and white photo of a rocky, sandy shoreline with sparse grass on a cloudy day, no people present.

The Baltic Sea covers around 420.000 square km and stretches from eastern Denmark (including Kattegat) to southwestern Sweden onto the eastern side of the Scandinavian Peninsulas to close to the Arctic Circle, southern Finland.

It is suffering immensely from excessive nutrient enrichment, over-fertilization resulting in the growth of algae and lack of oxygen.