The Sandy Turtle Coral Reef: An Underwater Paradise
Mahahual is a popular tourist site for marine recreational activities located in the south of Quintana Roo, where tourists, scientists, and experts dive and snorkel in its clear waters to observe the coral headlands, channels, and deep massifs; the diversity of reef fishes, invertebrates and marine vertebrates.
However, outside the tourist area is the Sandy Turtle reef, which was unexplored until a few months ago. The surprise was that only 300 m from the coast marine treasures were found. Currently, Menos Plástico es Fantástico seeks to be related to the conservation of this reef, in order to create environmental awareness in young people and account for the plastic waste that comes to remain on the reef, as well as generate data and knowledge of a site that is home to a diversity of reef fish and corals, which are currently threatened and are scarce every day.
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RECENT CAUSES
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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.
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- MenosplasticoEnMahahual
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Pre-production plastic, a threat to the oceans that reaches the coasts of Mexico.