Plastic Odyssey

Plastic Odyssey is a non-profit organization that aims to fight against plastic pollution by acting at the source: ashore. 

Their vision? Build a global network of local initiatives. Their ambition? Clean up the past and build the future!

How? By encouraging social entrepreneurship at the local level, developing low-tech and open source technologies, and stimulating social engagement to empower local communities.

Their means? A 40 meters laboratory vessel, ambassador for the reduction and recycling of plastic waste that conceives, creates and develops simple solutions accessible to all, to reduce plastic pollution in the Ocean. Their ship will leave in early 2021 for a 3-year expedition across 3 continents, and over 30 cities, to uncover and share solutions.

The vessel, which embodies a real life-size demonstration platform to assess and promote tomorrow’s solutions, will circumnavigate along the world’s most polluted coasts to reconcile global challenges with local development. 

Onboard will be displayed:

• Low-tech and open source technologies to recycle plastic waste

• A mobile nomadic village to share knowledge and action tools with the remotest
  
  

To give you a little more perspective on the journey of their project, here are their stopovers:

• 2021: Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Guinea, Brazil, Haiti, Costa Rica, Ecuador
• 2022: Peru, Polynesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia
• 2023: Thailand, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Ivory Coast. 

You can find out more about their stopovers HERE.  

Their sponsors:

• Main partner: L’Occitane en Provence
• Official partners: Crédit Agricole, Clarins, Matmut
• Social partners: Enowe, Bioderma
• Patrons: Veolia, Procapital, Ponant: Fondation Océans Pôles-Peuples, Octopus Invest, PaxArctica, Feelingo
• Technical partners: Setec, The Dung Beetle Project, Trivéo, InsaValor, Bee Engineering
• Media Partners: Springwise, Bonne Pioche, RFI
• Official suppliers and service providers: Marlink, Stephenson Hardwood, Smart Sailors, Sofresid, Latham Watkins

Are you are representative of a company, an association, or an institution, and wish to commit yourself to their project? Become a partner of the project! They need you to make this adventure possible and build a world free of plastic in the Ocean.