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Aldabra: tackling one of the world’s most challenging cleanups. 🌍

After the Henderson expedition, Plastic Odyssey turned its attention to other UNESCO World Heritage Sites facing plastic pollution. Aldabra quickly stood out: hundreds of tons of waste scattered in tiny fragments along 50 km of rugged coastline.

With the Seychelles Islands Foundation, the team mapped the entire shoreline, measured and weighed representative samples, and tested extraction methods on this difficult terrain made of sharp coral rock and powerful currents.

This new episode shows the first steps of an ambitious effort to remove the plastic already here, and to develop solutions that go beyond landfilling.

UNESCO and Plastic Odyssey are partnering to combat plastic pollution in marine World Heritage sites through science-driven action, innovation and community-based solutions.

Learn more about this mission: https://aldabra.plasticodyssey.org

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📹 Credit: Marine Reveilhac