Reading scientific articles or field reports about remote island expeditions, it’s amazing how so much planning, traveling and creatively responding to challenges is delegated to one or two short lines. “Sailed for two days”, “Transporting waste from shore to ship was challenging”, “Water had to be brought ashore due to no on-island source”.
On my first remote island cleanup to Henderson Island, I lived those brief sentences, and let me tell you, they were not easy nor short. Traveling across the open ocean is both tedious and uncomfortable (hello seasickness) and when you are two days away from the nearest people, planning ahead is a matter of success or failure (let alone life or death). Plastic Odyssey has now gone through this process across three very different but similarly challenging remote islands: Henderson, Coco and Aldabra. Each island was different, forcing innovative solutions to new challenges.
Read the full article on Plastic Odyssey » Engineering the Unreachable: Innovation in Remote Island Plastic Cleanups
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