Environmental Experiences
The aim of creating this action is for volunteers to have direct contact with nature, seeking to make them more aware of their actions and consumption in their day-to-day lives. It also brings them closer to observe the problems they face on the beach, such as plastic waste pollution. For this reason, Sandy Turtle is a site that houses anyone who wants to see a different perspective of life based on a circular philosophy and that natural resources are finite, as well as supporting beach cleanups, environmental education, turtle and reef monitoring.
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Art & Environmental Education
Many plastics that wash up on our beach are non recyclable. For this reason, the initiative to create art with fishing nets and flip-flops, mainly, arises. However, creativity has no limits. Sometimes volunteers let their imagination run wild to create something tangible and visual with the plastic waste that arrives through the ocean currents.
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Nurdles
They are difficult to detect, but it is a necessary job and a responsibility that we have to carry after producing them. These are tiny microplastic pellets that form the basis of other plastic objects. Due to spills, monitoring, and manufacturing plants, they have begun to appear in our waterways, rivers, and oceans.
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Cleaning
We are the first plastic cleanup operation in Mexico to use data! Why? Because we would like to understand, and show, the depth and scope of the problem. Our working method involves timed cleanings in a given beach area, where we go in search of PET (plastic bottles), HDPE (dense plastics), glass, shoes, flip-flops, ropes, synthetic fibers and waste in general, then the waste is weighed, cleaned, separated and stored in our facilities.
A community-focused non-profit organization working to tackle the root of the problem: the ever-growing consumption of single-use plastics. With various local projects, ranging from data-driven beach clean-ups, collaborations with the global scientific community, re-using plastic waste in arts & crafts to gain awareness, circular organic farming, food waste collection, and free water refilling stations, they are at the forefront of reducing plastic consumption.
- +52 1 983 121 8358
- MenosplasticoEnMahahual
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Pre-production plastic, a threat to the oceans that reaches the coasts of Mexico.