Eliminating plastic bottle use in Fuvahmulah, Maldives will reduce single-use plastic by 90% and halve overall waste on the island, helping to preserve a slice of paradise, and our oceans. Achieving this here, will help this island become the blueprint for the rest of the Maldives, and other island nations, to follow to ensure a brighter future free from the scourge of plastics.
PROJECT GOALS
The goal is to get a water filtration system sponsored for each of the roughly 1000 homes on the island so they can switch to glass bottles and glasses instead of plastic water bottles which will significantly help reduce the amount of plastic going into the surrounding water. This is one part of a greater effort to also help locals to benefit from protecting marine life, to see the value in protecting sharks, sea turtles, manta’s, corals, and more.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Help a small island community protect its marine life. This specific island is surrounded by critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles, Tiger sharks, (IUCN listed as near threatened), Oceanic Mantas (endangered), Thresher sharks (vulnerable), Scalloped hammerheads (critically endangered), and passing whale sharks (endangered.) Luckily fishing here is extremely small scale (mostly only a small number of fishermen from the island who use 1 hand line.)
The largest direct threat to marine life at this particular island is marine debris with abandoned nets drifting in from other countries (which the dive boats and fishermen look out for.) Unfortunately, from the local community, and growing tourism, the impact comes via marine debris because the majority use single-use plastic water bottles DAILY.
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