and be patient. celine fernandez is helping out with the counting she works in the biosphere reserve team she says most of the plastic bottles arriving on the island contain palm oil for cooking by holding collections every few months the team has gathered up four hundred fifty thousand bottles for every fifty they hand out a reusable container made of stainless steel. a bit of metal over the plastic so we have four tons of plastic stored on the main island of southall me a maritime transport company is helping us by taking it to lisbon free of charge to the recycling companies there will receive it and it was a couple mess tourism hasn t yet come to the island and that s the way they want to keep it but the locals also need jobs so the idea is to help cycle the ardennes waste seventy percent of which is organic or about her that day that.