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Saturday 22th January 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople hear the problem, they get scared faced with this problem and do want to change, but end up considering that it\u2019s very hard and they won\u2019t be able to do it.\u201d It\u2019s to counter this way of thinking that marine biologist Ana P\u00eago works to raise awareness for ocean protection in communities. At the end of the day, change is within reach for each and any one of us. Step by step, we can all be agents of change.<\/p>\n

Known for being a woman on a mission, Ana the biologist sees marine waste as a teller of stories. Using it, Ana the activist tells her own stories, where the main protagonist has a pseudo-scientific name. It\u2019s called Plasticus Maritimus<\/em> and sounds a cry of alarm in 11 languages: \u201cWake up!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Monitoring marine waste washing up on the coast has become a kind of vice that is part and parcel of Ana P\u00eago\u2019s daily life. However, over and above cleaning\u00a0 \u2018her\u2019 beach, Ana looks for \u2018treasure\u2019. Once a beachcomber<\/em>, always a beachcomber<\/em>! Taking her first steps on her own, she went on to learn a lot with the British, masters in the art of identifying \u2018treasures\u2019 below or on the surface of the sea that wash up along the coast.<\/p>\n

Anxiety is one of the words she repeats most often to describe what she feels when talking about the trash that arrives on the beaches on a daily basis. \u201cSome ten years ago I started to notice this new species. I started researching where all this trash was coming from and I realised that even if I was going to do nothing else for the rest of my life, it wouldn\u2019t stop coming. I wouldn\u2019t even succeed in saving \u2018my\u2019 beach, much less the oceans\u201d, she says, venting her frustration. \u201cBeachcombing<\/em> (in Portuguese, \u2018pentear a praia\u2019 or, in the Coimbra area, \u2018ir \u00e0 catraia\u2019) was what saved me from the anxiety of seeing trash arrive every single day\u201d, she adds.<\/p>\n

In between those daily walks, there came a point where she was hit like a flash by a thought: \u201cIf people aren\u2019t coming to the beach to see this, I\u2019ll have to take this trash to them.\u201d It was then that she started to select and to \u2018catalogue\u2019 the waste she picks up. \u201cI started to make collections to be able to show the mind-blowing quantity of some articles I was picking up every day\u201d, she tells us.<\/p>\n

With a degree in Marine Biology and Fishing from the University of Algarve, she\u2019d been working on a research grant for several years when in 2012, she left the Maritime Laboratory at Guia, Cascais, where she\u2019d been working for 10 years, and took the decision to dedicate herself to environmental education. Ana started to collaborate with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and to give talks and workshops in schools.<\/p>\n

It was with the idea of unveiling the mysteries of objects that at the end of 2015 she created the Plasticus Maritimus <\/em>page. Sharing compositions and photographs of objects found on the beach, the page began to captivate an ever larger audience, gaining visibility.<\/p>\n

From there it was only a small step to the publication of the book \u201cPlasticus maritimus, uma esp\u00e9cie invasora\u201d (Plasticus maritiumus, an invasive species), published by the renowned Planeta Tangerina publishing house, in 2019. Actually, Ana had been dreaming of her own field guide for a long time. The challenge of writing it with Isabel Minh\u00f3s Martins (illustrations by Bernardo Carvalho) was taken up enthusiastically, but at that point Ana couldn\u2019t have guessed the wave of success that the book would get to ride on. Today adopted as part of the National Reading Plan (PNL) in Portugal, the book has been translated into 11 languages and garnered honours and distinctions: Best non-fiction book at the Bologna Children\u2019s Book Fair in Italy; shortlisted for the Pr\u00e9mio BD Amadora in the best Portuguese Graphic Artist of Illustrated Books category (2019); for the 2021 Outstanding Science Trade Book (USA); the French Ecological Book for Young Readers prize 2021 at the Festival du Livre et de la Presse d\u2019\u00c9cologie and for the Prix Sorci\u00e8res 2021 (France).<\/p>\n

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The stories behind the detritus <\/strong><\/p>\n

All of a sudden, the mission gains new directions. \u201cWhile walking on the beach\u201d, she explains, \u201cthere and then I\u2019m already selecting what will come home with me and what will go into the waste bin\u201d. \u201cI particularly like these monochrome dolls from the 1960s or 1970s that used to come for free with the Ol\u00e1 or Raj\u00e1 ice creams; bottles of vinegar or bleach that are no longer in circulation\u2026\u201d, she tells us.<\/p>\n

But there are also stories of shipping containers fallen into the sea, of the buoy used to hunt swordfish in New Jersey or of the bag containing emergency drinking water used by the Russian Navy. \u201cI started to understand that there were things coming from the United States and Canada, to watch out for the expiry dates on the packaging, for the country of origin\u2026\u201d, she reveals.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a certain point I started to find some small white crosses\u2026 later on I was to discover that they were small pieces to level azulejo <\/em>tiles, and that would probably end up in the sea, through the gutters. Still on the subject of objects from building sites I have rawlplugs \u2013 jars full of rawlplugs, with silicone tips.<\/p>\n

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Cotton swabs and applicators for tampons (not to mention the single-use straws, now banned from production) are among the items that Ana P\u00eago most commonly finds on her walks. And here too COVID has introduced changes. \u201cJust today, in the space of 10 minutes, I found six face masks. Many people don\u2019t know that single-use masks are made of plastic and synthetic fibres, of polypropylene\u201d, she remarks.<\/p>\n

As a rule, Ana doesn\u2019t weigh nor count the rubbish she picks. \u201cBut when there is something out of the ordinary about an item, that\u2019s when I do tell its story\u201d, she explains. \u201cIn January and February\u201d, she says, giving an example, \u201cthere was a peak of fruit stickers. There were days when, over a short period of time, I\u2019d pick up 70, 80 of them… The sticker marking out the Ma\u00e7\u00e3 de Alcoba\u00e7a apple won by a long stretch, followed by the one on our Rocha pears\u201d (laughs). But, other participants in this \u2018race\u2019 were the tops, plastic insides of the bottletops and screwcaps, amongst plenty of other small (and, occasionally, mysterious) objects. In amongst all this she also found \u2018treasures\u2019: \u201cthings that have been lost at sea for a long long time, such as the Coca-Cola bottletop referring to the 1986 Football World Cup in Mexico, with the face of Veloso the football player\u2026\u201d, she reveals.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, worse than finding things that have been adrift at sea for a long time\u201d, adds the biologist, \u201cis finding much more recent things, for example coffee capsules\u201d. \u201cYou also find coffee capsules on the beach?\u201d \u2013 we ask, in disbelief. \u201cYep, today in fact, over the course of 10 minutes, I found two\u201d, she decries.<\/p>\n

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Global warming and the circular economy<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I notice in the schools is that there is an effort to create change\u201d, Ana observes. \u201cWe have to understand that responsibility lies not only with teachers, or the headteachers of the school, it\u2019s global, it\u2019s about all of us.\u201d Even so, \u201cif the kids engage in this at 1st-grade level, they can, when well informed, turn into great activists\u201d, she explains, \u201cwhen they are older they don\u2019t understand the littering of the beaches, in the gardens or in the street\u2026\u201d. \u201cFor that reason\u201d, she adds, \u201cI still couldn\u2019t say with any certainty that the young people are taking this problem truly seriously. There are some young actively involved youngsters who are setting the example, and the majority are beginning to take more of an interest, also because it\u2019s cool<\/em> to go to a climate demo \u2013 and that\u2019s great. Yet they might well on their way home go and eat at McDonalds. At that point they forget the details involved in defending the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

She takes her distance from radical stances and is \u201cnot aiming to demonise plastic \u2013 because it can be rather useful; however, there are lots of things in our daily lives that we don\u2019t need to use or for which we can find an alternative\u201d, she reckons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis craze of using and throwing out has to stop, whether it\u2019s plastic \u2013 which has the problem of being durable, and afterwards disintegrating into micro-plastics -, but also with paper.\u201d For the biologist, these materials should be reserved for sporadic situations and possibly \u201cbe more expensive\u201d, as a way to discourage their use.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Retoque Retro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn Europe, we\u2019ve been talking about recycling for 25 years now yet we still have trouble separating our waste. Then, we have the countries of the developing world, where waste is thrown straight into rivers and brooks. It\u2019s only been over the past few years that we started to become conscious of the fact that not all of our waste was treated here, but that a large part of it was being shipped to China\u201d, she reminds us.<\/p>\n

Even so, Ana believes that change is coming. \u201cWith the European Strategy for Reduction of the Use of Plastics, which emerged in 2018, Europe and the United States are finding themselves left with their trash on their hands!\u201d And this obliges organisms and countries to think beyond the old maxim \u2013 produce, use, throw away \u2013 to start projecting a world where every single thing will have a use. \u201cWill the companies and governments be capable to manage things in a way that would allow this to become reality?\u201d \u2013 she asks.<\/p>\n

In this circular economy, which goes against the linear economy reigning down the centuries, everything will have its use, from the crumb to the packaging. This awakening will have to start in the companies, through \u201ctaking responsibility for the waste they produce and for the packaging they choose. Those will have to be biodegradable (not simply greenwashing<\/em>), compostable, recyclable, or allow for \u2018refill<\/em>\u2019\u201d, she clarifies. And the wealth of the organic material will end up having its use. \u201cHow is it possible that for years we\u2019ve been dumping products into landfill that have so many nutrients and that could be reused with so much benefit through community organic composters?\u201d, Ana asks.<\/p>\n

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The return of the returnable container<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the fights she\u2019s been involved in is about the implementation of a deposit return system (SDR) in Portugal for all packaging, including glass, together with the WWF, the Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Zero and the Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Sciaena.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies talk in a very rose-tinted way about the circular economy, but in practice we know that they\u2019ll do everything they can to put a brake on it because to them it makes no economic sense. It\u2019s been much easier for them for all those years to produce plastic packaging that is single-use and then blame the common citizen for not placing the packaging in the right eco bin. What we want is the product. It\u2019s the companies that are beholden to come up with packaging that is sufficiently enticing \u2013 or valuable \u2013 to not throw it away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of talk\u201d \u2013 and increasingly so \u2013 \u201cabout sustainability, but many people don\u2019t know what this word actually means. Sustainability\u201d, she explains, \u201crests on three pillars: environmental (a production without recourse to chemicals), social (people are paid to provide this service), economic (its commercialisation is viable). We know that there are things that have been coming up but that to date have not yet become sustainable\u201d, she relates.<\/p>\n

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How can we contribute?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not one to say: \u2018never again in my life\u2019, but truth be told there are products that have stopped being in my house every day! Ten years ago I stopped using shower gel and handwash and started using soap and solid shampoo\u201d, she tells us. The next items to go were the detergents. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. Do we really need to have everything disinfected to within an inch of its life? We know that those toxic products, or the medication we take, all end up in the sea or create problems in the water treatment plants\u201d, she stresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI very rarely go to supermarkets\u201d, she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been years that I stopped buying produce such as meat or fish there. I don\u2019t want to bring more plastic bags and styrofoam trays home. I do tend to eat more vegetables, but I\u2019m no radical. When I want, or need to, I take my containers and go to the fishmongers or butcher\u2019s\u201d, she explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also avoid buying fruit and vegetables from the supermarket, because I manage to source produce of better quality at a grocery or from the market. I also buy the quantity I want, in the\u00a0 packaging I want, which are the ones I\u2019ve brought with me. Buying the quantity that I really need is a step towards the reduction of food waste\u201d, she argues.<\/p>\n

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When we ask Ana P\u00eago about the measures she would implement in case she was given a governmental role in the Department of the Environment, she smiles, and quickly draws up a set of ideas. \u201cSingle-use plastics are at the top of the list\u201d, she explains. \u201cWhile the companies are being pressured to reduce the quantity of plastics they produce by European norms, they are starting to appear more and more at conferences wanting to join the scientists and non-governmental organisations. And it makes perfect sense for them to associate themselves with the Portuguese Anti-Plastic Pact or the European Anti-Plastic Pact. However, when I start seeing major brands that count among the biggest polluters in the world by the side of some public bodies in charge of the environment I feel that something is not right here. How can I believe in this pact?\u201d, she asks.<\/p>\n

The second and third measures would involve improving the transport network to discourage the use of private cars, reducing the release of carbon into the atmosphere, and ending products such as styrofoam or microplastics. \u201cIn Portugal, we still keep seeing those on supermarket shelves, in shower gels mainly, despite them having been banned in various countries.\u201d Ana also mentions a number of good practices to overcome the waste of water and squandering of energy in the construction sector.<\/p>\n

Despite this discourse of relative doom, she reckons that it does contain something positive. \u201cWe have entered a full revolution of the plastics sector. There are bad news, for sure, but new products have emerged too, in the area of microplastics research in particular, with work such as the one being developed by Professor Paula Sobral.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIdeally we would drastically reduce our consumption\u201d. \u201cBuying more locally\u201d, or even nationally could contribute to the reduction of our ecological footprint. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to be radical and say \u2018I\u2019ll never use plastics in my life ever again\u2019, nor to change everything from one day to the next, but when we do buy something it\u2019s a good idea to think about where this item will go at the end of its life\u201d, she adds. While individual attitudes in themselves don\u2019t generate change, these gestures, taken up by many citizens, serves as a pulley for lobbying and to pressure countries into adopting measures that foster well-being and security between Humankind and Nature.<\/p>\n

Embracing the cause of marine pollution has brought her recognition from the community too. The major encouragement, she admits, came with being awarded the Pr\u00e9mio Quercus 2020 in the individual category. But each nomination comes as a surprise, whether the Pr\u00e9mio Revista Activa 2020 \u2013 Inspiring Women (Sustainability), or 3rd place in Terre de Femmes 2020 – Yves Rocher Foundation… \u201cThese nominations\u201d, Ana explains, \u201ceven when you don\u2019t take first prize, are forms of activism, spreading the word not only about the project or person, but also about their causes. They result in the recognition of work to date and incentivise the continuation of the fight, of our work. They get the word out on the cause, turn you into a source of inspiration, lending strength to those following in our footsteps to create the necessary changes. It\u2019s this daily \u2018pressure\u2019 that generates changes. While we wait for governments and major companies to take the initiative for change, it is really down to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dina Ad\u00e3o (45)<\/h3>\n\t\t\t studied journalism and librarian, mother of a 12-year-old daughter, works at the Col\u00e9gio Internacional de Vilamoura and freelance for ECO123<\/p>\n

Translation: Kathleen Becker
\nPhotos: Dina Ad\u00e3o and Ana Pego\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n

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