Marine waste: we're talking about millions of tons

According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion and the Ministry of Energy Transition:

"Waste at sea is very diverse in nature and size: cigarette butts, cotton buds, fishing nets and equipment, hunting stuffs, biomedia, balloons, etc. Among them, plastic waste (packaging, bags, industrial granules ...) is by far the most widespread in the marine environment. On a global scale, it is estimated today that the quantity of plastic in the oceans is between 75 and 199 million tons (which represents 85% of marine waste), and that 24400 billion particles of micro-plastics are floating on the surface of the oceans [...]"

Preventive actions, in order to have long term effects, must be implemented such as :

• waste prevention at the source,
• awareness of the actors,
• better management of waste on land,
• prevention of illegal dumping.

Nevertheless, given the mass of waste already present in the oceans, more curative actions must also be taken.

Various solutions exist on land or at sea. This is particularly true of our clean-up vessels, which work to collect solid and liquid waste at sea.

Macro-waste, micro-plastics, hydrocarbons, our vessels are designed to collect all floating waste from ports to the open sea, depending on their size and collection capacity.

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