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Apart from their severe impact on the environment, marine and beach litter are causing problems to human activities that use and depend on the sea, while also raising human health concerns. European Member States are developing measures to tackle marine litter with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), but the database is still insufficient. The National Institute for Marine Research and Development Grigore Antipa' Constanta (NIMRD) has been actively involved in marine litter related activities, such as the participation in the CLEANSEA and MARLISCO projects, sea surveys for seabed marine litter monitoring, terrestrial surveys along Romanian Black Sea coast sectors for beach marine litter monitoring, laboratory analyses for macro- and micro-plastics, participation in actions to identify the main polluters, developing proposals for measures to reduce litter pollution of the marine environment (MSFD), beach cleaning activities, education and awareness raising campaigns, and introducing the Marine Litter Watch Mobile Application. Marine Litter Watch App was developed by the European Environment Agency and combines citizen engagement and modem technology to help tackle marine litter. Marine Litter Watch offers tools to collect and share comparable data on marine litter on beaches. It also provides a platform for marine litter communities to come together, share their knowledge and co-create approaches to monitoring marine litter. NIMRD is part of the Perseus and School Community and three Romanian beaches were included in the programme: 2 sandy beaches (Ammon - 417 m - and Flora - 181 m, in the Mamaia resort urban) and 1 mixed beach (Vame Veche - 2 Mai - 2,323 m - rural). Surveys have been implemented both off-season (January, April 2015), as well as during the high tourist season (summer 2015), and the main wastes identified were cigarette butts and plastic containers.