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FEATURES 26 COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Plastic in Paradise Josephine Mahony, Ecology and Climate Science student at Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, returns from a successful mission to clean up plastic at the remote island of Aldabra. The project was to return the island to its pristine state by reducing plastic waste. Sir David Attenborough once commented that the Aldabra Atoll is ‘one of the world’s greatest surviving natural treasures’. Aldabra, the world’s second-largest coral atoll, is one of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. It has escaped many human threats over the centuries, but plastic pollution has found its way there. The project of clearing the island of man-made rubbish was launched in 2018, with generous sponsorship, corporate and individual. It has attracted growing international interest and was highlighted at the G7 Summit in 2018 by the President of the Seychelles. The team, seven from the Seychelles and five from Oxford, included Josephine Mahony, a fourth-year DPhil student at Wolfson in Ecology and Climate Science in East-Africa. On 16 February they went to Mahé, the largest island in the Seychelles, and on to Aldabra a week later, and only returned after five weeks of clearing the beaches from plastic. What was your first impression when you came to Aldabra? ‘Oh, I cried. When you come closer to the island, you realise that there’s life everywhere. When we first arrived, there was an epic sunset, crabs all over the beach, sharks swimming in the water, and turtles nesting on the beach.’ FEATURES And what about the plastic pollution? ‘We were based in the south of the island, a part of Aldabra that is very inaccessible, which means that the plastic pollution there is hard to get rid of. There was a big difference between the amount of plastic on the beaches there compared with more northern beaches. In some places the plastic was two metres deep. It’s buried amongst the seaweed, but you’re pulling out entire chairs; we picked up about fifty thousand flip-flops, and a mass of lighters. We found just about everything you can think of that’s made of plastic.’ Photo: Christian B Can you tell us a bit about the project? ‘There were three different phases, the first one being the clean-up phase. This was the most physically intense part. The alarm went off at five in the morning, but it took a while to get ready. We were in camps with bunk beds and a cooker. If you wanted to go to the toilet, you had to work out when everyone else was going, and then walk a quarter of an hour past spiky rocks and deal with the mosquitoes. We had ten cups of water a day each for showering. All this meant we usually got started around 6:30. We’d walk to the nearest beach while carrying water and the sacks we needed, food, and lots of sun cream. We would create WOLFSON.OX.AC.UK 27
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