He sailed for 3 years around the world to raise awareness on plastic pollution

Bernard met with local associations, start-ups and companies working to collect, sort or recycle plastic at the various stopovers. — Photos: Plastic Odyssey

Simon Bernard’s private war on plastic pollution began in 2016.

From the deck of the cargo ship he was working on, Bernard was stunned to discover mountains of rubbish piled up in Hann Bay, once a white sandy beach that had become an open sewer in the Senegalese capital Dakar.