Nurdles
After each beach cleaning, the team goes in search of 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 all other plastic. Due to poor regulations on manifacturing plants and spills during transportation these micro plastics are now becoming discovered in waterways, rivers, oceans and beaches thanks to monitoring.
They’re so small that they’re virtually impossible to remove from our oceans, so we’re trying to collect as much data as possible on them. Even worse, nurdles have been shown to absorb toxic chemicals inside them as they travel through the ocean and make excellent transport vessels for all kinds of bacteria.
The form does not have Goals enabled.
- LAST DAY : never, all donations are always open! Donate Now
RECENT CAUSES
-
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.
-
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.
-
Free Water Filling Stations
Is Less Plastic's Solution Fantastic? Give people access to free water refill stations! And not just one or two. Everywhere in the city, in shops, hotels, bars and, as far as we're concerned, there's no excuse to buy that plastic problem anymore. Free the bottle, man! We are in a rapid reusable revolution! This project began with 25 water stations, and seeks affordable, safe and acceptable physical access to drinking water for the local community of Mahahual, since it is a fundamental right for health and, above all, to seek alternatives to reduce the use of disposable bottles.
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
LINKS
Pre-production plastic, a threat to the oceans that reaches the coasts of Mexico.