SEA LIFE Porto joins "TheTrashTraveler" to raise Awareness about Plastic Pollution with Art

Today is the day that SEA LIFE Porto and molecular biologist, Andreas Noe, aka "TheTrashTraveler" join together to the beach-cleaning event organised under the initiative "The Plastic Hike". Rendezvous is set at Castelo do Queijo, at 6.30pm. 

Andreas Noe has been living in Portugal for the past two years and has set himself a bold and noble mission: to travel 832 kilometres and to cross the Portuguese coastline in just 60 days, with the goal of raising people's awareness on the impact of plastic and waste in ecosystems.

This mission kicked off on 15th August and today, 20th August, SEA LIFE Porto joins the initiative.

In a statement to Porto., Patrícia Lima, SEA LIFE Porto Marketing Manager, explains that "this year, SEA LIFE Porto will not organise major beach-cleaning events, as usual and that gather thousands of volunteers; however, we still want to organise actions with a positive ecological impact, and this is why we have joined Andreas, the German molecular biologist that created the Plastic Hike Project", Patricia Lima enhanced and furthered that this cleaning event is open to the public, that should meet at 6.30pm at Castelo do Queijo.

Volunteers to the mission, who will be wearing a vest provided by SEA LIFE Porto, will comply with all the health preventive measures in place, issued by DGS, namely keeping social distancing.

The trash collected will be stored by the institution, which will later be transformed into artwork and put on display for visitors.

In addition, Andreas Noe is filming a documentary on marine species conservation and parts of the documentary will be filmed at the SEA LIFE Porto, with interviews to Sea Life's biologists, who will address the importance of marine species and habitat preservation.

In 2019, Andreas Noe was able to collect 690kg of garbage.