Play to change the world

The younger generation is a driving force for change, and with their wide eyes eager to discover the world, their inexhaustible creativity and their sensitivity to environmental issues, our children often lead adults towards new ways of looking at the world.

On this World Oceans Day, whose theme for 2023 was “Planet Ocean: the tides are changing (courtesy of Bob Dylan 😊), The SeaCleaners wanted to put the spotlight on young people: through a major photo novel competition organised with schools around the world, and the launch of the very first board game designed to deepen their knowledge of oceanography, developed in partnership with Ravensburger.

These 2 great initiatives are the fruit of the work of The SeaCleaners’ Education and Awareness Department. Their mission? To help teachers and educators raise awareness of the need to protect the oceans and combat plastic pollution, with resources and tools tailored to each cycle.

The Teachers’ web Area, which is freely accessible (but in French only at the moment), enables all educational staff to find appropriate and fun teaching materials: teaching sequences, activity sheets, experiments, videos, quizzes, posters and games, etc.

To mark World Oceans Day, the teams at The SeaCleaners and Ravensburger, specialists in puzzles, games, creative leisure activities and toys, have joined forces to develop “Save the Oceans“, a new cooperative quiz game for 1 to 5 players aged 7 and over.

A tonne of plastic waste is dumped into the ocean every 3 seconds. That’s between 9 and 14 million tonnes a year. This game has been designed to discover the extraordinary biodiversity of the oceans and raise players’ awareness of marine plastic pollution, while giving them the keys to understanding the phenomenon and its impact, as well as advice on eco-actions to reduce it.

The fun and original game board reproduces the MANTA, our iconic floating plastic waste collection boat.

How does it work? Players are invited to come aboard the MANTA. Working together, they will have to take risks and skilfully answer questions divided into several fun themes in order to collect as much plastic as possible and save the oceans. It’s only by joining forces and pooling their brains that they’ll be able to do this… but be careful, because time is running out and the waste is coming thick and fast!

The game is available now from specialist game shops across France, and in supermarkets from July.

Get ready to save the oceans and join us on this fun adventure!

This year, for World Oceans Day, The SeaCleaners invited schools, colleges, leisure centres, etc. in France and abroad to use the medium of the photo-novel to illustrate and adopt simple eco-actions that can be implemented on a daily basis to combat plastic pollution.

The results are brilliant and a testimony of te creativity and commitment of the younger generation!

The winners were :
– 4 groups of pupils from the CM2 class at the Dromel school in Marseille
– 2 groups from La Cousinière primary school in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe
– 1 group from the “Les enfantastiques” leisure centre in Saint-Senoux, Brittany
– 1 group from the CM2 class at Nuyens primary schools in Bordeaux
– 2 groups from Sand Desrousseaux primary schools in Lomme, Hauts-de-France

Special mention for the 2 international prizes:
– 1 group from the Lycée français René Cassin in Oslo / Den franske skolen
– 1 group from Collège Hamdi Kouider in Miliana, Algeria

The SeaCleaners would like to congratulate all the participants for their commitment and their fantastic photo-novels!

“To fight plastic pollution, there is nothing better than taking action”.

On this World Oceans Day, the founder of The SeaCleaners, Yvan Bourgnon, took to the microphone at UN Geneva to talk about our fight against the scourge of plastic pollution in the oceans.