There is no doubt that Simon Bernard and Alexandre Dechelotte, the two founders of Plastic Odyssey, will return to the Merchant Navy in Marseille, the school where they met and imagined their project. But from this Friday the 3rd in the morning, kids from other schools in the city and surrounding areas will come and clap their hands. Some 700 students from 25 establishments boarded with the explorers of the seventh continent in Bouches-du-Rhône. A big drop of enthusiasm in the ocean of kids invited to come on board around the world, or to extend stopovers around workshops, frescoes or designs for plastic recycling machines. “We traveled wellconforms Maït© Abos, in charge of the education aspect within the crew. We created apprentice explorers because traveling and finding solutions without sharing makes no sense.”
“Why are all these Capri Suns here?”
At each stopover in these southern countries where the fight against pollution, plastic or otherwise, is rudimentary, a few members of the crew pushed open the classroom doors. “The students’ environment is the canteen, the football stadium next to the schoolcontinues Maït© Abos…
