The garbage patches are waste heaps built by oceanic streams. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, The Great Pacifique Garbage Patch floats on an area fourth time bigger than France. To cope with this catastrophe, Watch the Waste and Surfrider Foundation start a shipping.
Watch the Waste, a 1901 law association, is made for making the people aware about the oceanic pollution issues. This association does the best to collect some information that can help the scientific research about oceanic waste.
At the moment, the main action is about making operational the Portail d’Observation des Déchets en Mer (PODEM). This portal will be the outcome of the entire “Watch the Waste” activities because it will allow putting together every data collected by the ocean users, and will give an in live map of the floating wastes.
To embody the PODEM, the association Watch the Waste, in partnership with Surfrider Foundation, will cast off the 2009/2010 Watch the Waste Atlantic shipping on Saturday October 10th , at 4pm, from La Panne Lois Carades in La Trinité sur Mer.
This shipping around the North Atlantic Ocean is to update a simplified typology to characterize the macro wastes and to build up a reporting methodology to make the PODEM working.
Meeting on Sunday October 10th in La Trinité sur Mer to support the 2009/2010 Watch the Waste Atlantic shipping, against the macro-wastes.
The partners for this expedition
l’association Robin des Bois, le Centre National d’Information Indépendante sur les Déchets, et Surfrider Foundation Europe.
