"NO" SEA&EARTH POLLUTION
NO SEA&EARTH POLLUTION - ALBATROSS
creates global awareness for an obvious goal:
cleaning up the poisonous plastic mess we make.
" ALBATROSS " anti PLASTIC POLLUTION
"ACTION" Project 2012-2020
Captain Manfred Reicher
founder- chairman
- ACTIVE AGAINST PLASTIC WASTE -
- AKTIE TEGEN PLASTIC AFVAL -
- PLASTIK ATIK KARŞI ETKİN -
- AKTIV GEGEN KUNSTSTOFFMÜll -
- ACTION CONTRE ORDURES PLASTIC -
- ATTIVIAMOCI CONTRO I RIFIUTI IN PLASTICA -
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THE AIM
In its 36-months SOS - ALBATROSS ocean-ACTION, the "NO” SEA&EARTH POLLUTION boat "HALLELUJAH" with its PLASTIC FISHING Catamaran "PANDORA" will travel almost around the world.
The campaign is called "ALBATROSS" anti-PLASTIC POLLUTION "ACTION" project 2012-2020 and is directed against the trash of our "civilization"!
The aim of the pilot project is to collect the plastic waste along heavily polluted coastal regions.
To „fish“ the plastic particles out of the sea on shore/off shore a purpose-built net is located in tow (from the Trimaran to the Catamaran "PANDORA")
The name Pandora is well known from the Greek mythology - It will be used in different regions of the world's oceans.
Both boats, the trimaran „HALLELUJAH“ and the "PANDORA" have a loading capacity of 6 to 9 tons.
The plastic trash will be hackled into smaller pieces by a purpose-built shredder and filled into special bags.
These bags are then packed in fishing nets, which should give rise (with the increasing amount of trash collected) to a floating island in tow.
This island with limited capacity (about 25 to 40 tons) will be named "PLASTLANTIS".
The disposal of collected plastic waste is carried out in certain regions of the country.
This SOS ALBATROSS oceans-ACTION is not only raising awareness of the global waste problem, but also as a significant contribution to the disposal and recycling of plastic waste.
It will be documented by video and "Reality" Internet TV broadcast live.
Plastic waste and impacts to wildlife:
The plastic waste is a major problem for many marine animals and especially a fundamental threat to marine mammals which get entagled in ghost fishing nets and to sea birds which drown in between the plastic rings of six-pack carriers.
Plastics is mistakenly taken up together with food by ocean-going birds such as the ALBATROSS and fulma.
The animals die of starvation and thirst, because the plastic parts clog their stomachs and leave no room for real food and liquid. In addition, the plastic waste is fed to the offspring.
Indirectly, the plastics is responsible for the death of birds, because their condition is massively weakened.
During a survey scientists found plastic parts in the stomachs of 97 percent of the studied North Sea fulmars and albatrosses.
Three out of five Layson albatross chicks die on one of the Hawaiian Islands within the first six months of life.
Although the stomach is filled, and the hunger is satisfied - their main diet consists of plastics and contains no nutrients.
The sea wildlife is threatened not only by abandoned nets, plastic bags or rigid plastics.
There is a threat to all marine life - totally unseen and far too little discussed:
the poisoning of the marine environment and the food chain by pollutants that are present in plastics or be transported by plastics.
In recent years, especially bisphenol A, a monomeric building block (e.g. in polycarbonate), with an annual production volume of several million tons, came in for criticism.
It is suspected to disrupt the hormone system and cause massive change even on the genetic level.
Plastics constitutes of up to 80% of plasticizers (e.g. phthalates) that are released very easily.
Plastics alone is not the only source of pollution.
Hideshige Tanaka (Tokyo University) and Richard Thompson (University of Plymouth) have proved that - due to their chemical properties - so-called persistent organic pollutants (POPs) settle on the surface of tiny plastic particles (micro-sculptures).
Among them are highly toxic substances such as DDT or PCBs.
Measurements on these micro-sculptures showed a million times (!!!!) increased concentration of POPs compared to the surrounding sea water.
These plastic particles get into marine organisms as food and kept in the food chain.
Through the chain, they are concentrated up so that animals and man as the end-consumer take up highest amounts of them.
The fight against this type of sea pollution in the coastal regions of Turkey is the beginning of many more spectacular "actions" of "ALBATROSS " till 2020!
