• Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco
  • Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco
  • Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco
  • Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco
  • Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco
  • Limpiando nuestra Isla del Coco

Cleaning up our Cocos Island

Project objective

To mobilize existing waste in Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica), promoting an improvement in the health of the ecosystems and park rangers that inhabit this oceanic jewel.

This project was executed under the supervision of a coordinating committee, which takes up an initiative born in 2016 due to the urgent need to leave the island free of this waste. Three key actions were achieved: i) updating existing waste inventory, ii) having a cargo ship to mobilize waste to the continent and iii)  raising enough resources to cover the expenses associated to volunteers, material unloading and traceability of waste.

The project is mainly grouped in three stages:

I. Organization of volunteers and logistics in Cocos Island National Park to mobilize the waste.
II. Discharge and traceability of the waste that arrived to continent.
III. Education and Arts

Equipment and other plastic and metal waste will be treated with an environmental management company. Fishing line, hooks and buoys will be used for educational purposes in schools within #miisladelcoco campaign. In addition, art sculptures alluding the island will be created with the collected fishing gear.