“I Clean My Sea” app now up and running

The I Clean My Sea app is designed to report plastic waste coming in from the sea. It is hooked up to waste collector boats on the Adour estuary and the Basque coastline and can now be downloaded for free. 

Available on iOS and Android, and developed on the Izarbel science park, the start-up’s app has been operational since mid-August. This app makes it possible to take photos of floating waste and geolocate it. The information is then processed (position, expected drift trajectory) so that a boat can then retrieve this debris during its waste collection round.

Developed by Aymeric Jouon, an oceanographer by profession, the I Clean My Sea start-up benefited from an incubation grant from the Communauté Pays Basque in 2018 to subsidise its development. The project centres on the work carried out by a waste collector boat that has been in service since the beginning of July on the Adour estuary and the Basque coastline. This summer, I Clean My Sea was declared a winner of the ESA Bic programme, an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) to encourage technology transfer. In time, this new partnership could make it possible to locate marine waste from space.

For more information and to download the app, visit: icleanmysea.com