Overview
Headquarters
Delft, Zuid-Holland
Category
Join The Clean Beach Movement
Pantai Project started as a student initiative born in TU Delft, The Netherlands, motivated to contribute to the plastic pollution crisis. Back in 2018, when the five of us were still students at the TU Delft, Netherlands, we decided to do something about the ongoing plastic pollution crisis. Our journey started by travelling to Bali, Indonesia. We wanted to experience the plastic pollution problem first hand. With a bag full of hope and equipment we started measuring across different areas and engaged with the locals to create mutual understanding and awareness on the issue. One day, it started raining intensely with heavy wind gusts. At the same time we were performing measurements in one of Bali’s rivers. Suddenly, the river started to flood and within minutes large amounts of plastics started to storm right at us, damaging our equipment. It was on this day that we experienced and realized the tangible effects of plastic pollution. It not only harms animals, it also affects people and the way they have to live on a daily basis. Knowing the severity of the issue, we founded Pantai Project. Its name comes from the Bahasa (Indonesian) word for beach, Pantai. From this moment on we were dedicated to contribute to a plastic pollution solution. We achieve this by engaging in scientific research globally, by collaborating with locals, raising awareness among each other and organizing clean-ups creating a cleaner future one plastic at a time.
