TOTAL PROJECT COST – €6.333

IN PROGRESS

• Organisation Applying for Funding: 0 Plastic Menorca
• Project Duration: 20 – 23 September 2024
• Area of Interest: Plastics, Environmental Heroes
• Other entities involved: Es cranc pelut, Menorca mar & charter, Binipreu, Artiem, Graham Pearce, Merak Diving, CSIC

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Impact Type & Expected Outcomes

• Environmental Impact: Plastic – Reduction in Plastic Pollution
• Social, Economic and Policy: Social – Behaviour change

Summary of the project

After 4 years of organizing the 0 Plastic Menorca Expedition, and after seeing the positive impact on the awareness of the volunteers with whom we created long-term relation ships, and who have shown us how they have implemented good single-use plastic reduction practices in their own jobs and their day to day, we decided to launch the fifth 0 Plastic Diving Expedition.

Environmental Focus

80% of the marine litter on the Mediterranean coast comes from tourism, and 95% of it is plastic. 99% of plastic ends up in the deep sea, with no data on how many centuries it takes to decompose in these environments
The traveler is not sufficiently aware and involved in environmental conservation.

• We select and bring together a group of more than 30 volunteers coming from all over Spain to involve them in an immersive experience with the mission to increase their environmental awareness and inspire others around them to get involved.
• We promote a change in consumption habits and we encourage them to make environmental proposals in the companies they work for.

Description of the project

0 Plastic Menorca:

WHAT WE DO

We select and bring together a group of more than 30 volunteers coming from all over Spain to involve them in an immersive experience with the mission to increase their environmental awareness and inspire others around them to get involved.

We promote a change in consumption habits and we encourage them to make environmental proposals in the companies they work for.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• Raise awareness and sensitise about the problem of plastic pollution.
• To change participants’ behaviour through underwater plastic collections in order to reduce, reject and reuse plastic, especially single-use plastic.
• Promote conscious and responsible tourism on the island of Menorca as a successful example of caring for the Mediterranean.

AGENDA
Dates: 20-23 September 2024
Volunteers: 35 pax (from the island and the mainland)

Groups: There will be 2 groups: 1 diving group and 1 snorkelling group. We will go out together and we will try to collect plastic in the same area. Places for plastic collection (21st and 22nd September): Illa del Aire, Cala Rafalet and Port de Maó (depending on the weather conditions), leaving from the Port of Mahón.

Beach Talks: Environmental experts will talk about the damage of plastic on marine fauna and flora, waste management and leaks, the problem of microplastics, solutions and alternatives. This year we will be joined by a researcher from the CSIC who is an expert in pollution.