Afrigather In an bold mission to chop plastic air pollution within the high 30 most affected nations, the Plastic Odyssey is able to set sail from Marseille on 1 October.
It will likely be a three-year expedition to South-East Asia, Africa and South America; coaching a whole lot of individuals to recycle waste into helpful objects
Simon Bernard is a co-founder of Plastic Odyssey.
“We’ll be making 30 stops in Africa, South America and South-East Asia,” he says. “And the goal is to coach 300 recycling entrepreneurs who will have the ability to arrange micro-factories and course of waste earlier than it results in the ocean.”
The 20 crew members, in addition to encouraging recycling, will even run consciousness campaigns on the necessity to cut back the quantity of plastic in our every day lives at every of its stops
“90 % of ocean air pollution comes from about thirty nations that do not have the means – that do not have the infrastructure – for waste administration,” Simon explains.
“The present state of affairs is there, it is like that, we have now a heritage of 5 billion tonnes of plastic in unauthorised dumps, how can we flip it right into a useful resource to show an issue into an area answer?”
The ship gives a “zero waste and nil plastic” residing house the place sustainability is essential. Meals are rigorously saved and guests from all around the world will have the ability to observe the progressive machine instruments.
One other co-founder, Alexandre Dechelotte, describes what occurs under deck.
“We’re within the coronary heart of the boat, within the recycling workshop. This workshop can be used for coaching at every of the ports of name, and so we have now a number of machines that are used for coaching and demonstration, and the goal is to duplicate them within the subject.”
The 40 metre-long Plastic Odyssey is even powered by plastic waste, because of a system often known as pyrolysis.
It’s supported by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur area and by numerous non-public sponsors.
