It’s true that Albania has very beautiful beaches, but it also has the most polluted ones. It can be said that the country has some of the most polluted beaches in Europe. This was concluded by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which has monitored 21,667 beaches in Europe, 21,344 of which are part of the EU member countries and the rest are part of candidate countries.
In this ranking, Albania is among the last in terms of the cleanliness of beaches with only 35% of waters having an excellent quality, 20% having a good quality and 5% having adequate quality.
EEA has monitored 92% of Albania’s beaches and the samples taken from them have revealed that 56 of them have adequate quality, while 18 of them do not have a satisfying quality.
