Each year, an estimated 200 tonnes of plastic drifts down the River Seine through Paris and into the sea. It’s a tiny fraction of the 14 million tonne.
Like an archaeological dig, the Rozalia Project’s June 23-24 operation only peeled off the first layer of marine trash on Outer Great Bar’s northern shore that never had been cleared.
A great garland of wire traps and other detritus, decking Outer Bar Island’s northern shoreline, greeted 20 able-bodied volunteers coming ashore from a 60-foot Bermuda-rigged sloop and aluminum outboard skiffs on Thursday, June 23.