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Plastic In Sight
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About this good practice
Plastic In Sight is an environmental awareness project focusing on plastic as marine litter, using a mobile recycling laboratory – PAVan.
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The pilot project was funded by the European consortium, NO PLANET B - AMI (€68K) and the support of APLM, FCT, IPL, CMA. A team of producers, designers, architects and marine scientists, along with local volunteers, in several workshops, created the PAVan itself and all the play-to-learn materials.
Evidence of success
Plastic in sight had funding for 900 beneficiaries, in 13 sessions, in 7 routes. In the end, there were more than 30 routes, about 240 sessions and more than 4.000 beneficiaries.
Two good examples of how Plastic In Sight achieved its goals are: inspired an eco-enterprise of biodegradable bags; "promoting environmental protection" became the main theme for the annual activities program in the two school councils (and the local library) that had hosted us, in the following year.
Potential for learning or transfer
The need for an increased awareness on plastic as marine litter exists worldwide. The practices followed in Plastic In Sight can be replicated in most places: the contents (eg. 2030 SDG's or PlasticOcean videos) are made available by several organizations; almost any van can become a PAVan; and the Precious Plastics machines are open source technology.
The challenge is finding an implementing partner connected with the local stakeholders: academic; political; educational; social institutions and professional; that can help in assuring (respectively): that the programming contents are accurate, up-to-date, and adapted to local characteristics; align with local policy; can be seamlessly integrated in school curricula and, most important; help find the local issues, in and around plastic as marine litter, that the programming may be built around, expose or respond to.
Plastic In Sight has migrated to the north shore of the Tagus, to Lisbon, where zerop.org is implementing it.