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A French Sailor's Personal 'Plastic Odyssey'

Shocked at plastic waste on a once pristine beach, Simon Bernard launched what he called a 'plastic odyssey' (Credit: AFP)

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.

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