Jędrzej Górski, a PhD student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology, joined the group of six people who set off for Spitsbergen as part of the Sorkapp Marine Litter Cleanup project. They intend to clean up a fragment of the island’s shoreline, and after a year, check how much new trash came from the ocean.
Six participants of the expedition will stay for a month on Svalbard – on Palffyodden, located at the entrance of the Hornsund fjord, in the southern part of the Spitsbergen island. During this time, they intend to clean the 23-kilometer stretch of the coast within the Sor-Spitsbergen National Park, stretching from Breineset to Höferpynten.
Participants of the expedition are going to segregate the collected waste, separating it into plastic, nets and cables, rubber, glass, metal and hazardous waste, and then transport them to the capital of Svalbard, Longyearbyen to dispose it. The project is an initiative of the forScience Foundation co-financed by the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund.
