Toska’s paintings are for sale NOW , so this is an invitation to invest in art and not only contribute to the edible forest but also to the permaculture-recycled art interventions that will reach inland remote communities of Colombia. The profits will go towards this new decade of soil restoration , permaculture and environmental education through art , music, and cinema. stay tuned , because we will announce the launch of our crowd funding campaign very very soon!

art is available to be world wide shipped, and you will receive a certificate of donation as well!
if you are in Colombia and want to make an appointment to visit Toska’s atelier in Colombia to check out his new collection, get in touch via whatsapp ONLY : +57 3104221553 or in Belgium to check out his European pieces : +32 493359967

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The beach rangers were born at the end of 2019, when we got sponsored to clean the beach and install 5 more recycling stations in Juanchaco and  Ladrilleros,by UNILEVER and the Swedish Government in alliance with RECON FOUNDATION. 

6 people from the community would now get a job for cleaning the beach. 

We named them THE BEACH RANGERS: LOS GUARDAPLAYAS. 

just as there are park rangers and forest rangers in all national parks, there should also be BEACH RANGERS. 

We decided to make the best out of this sponsorship and created a whole study, that would help us determine the amounts of trash there were washing ashore with the tides, and also figure out what where the brands polluting the most in that part of the world, so that togehert with the industry we could come up more with alternatives. 

6 community members could now work in this study, clean the beach and become a great example to their community. Everybody in the community wanted to be a BEACH RANGER. Getting paid to keep the beach clean , seemed like a really good deal, in a community where jobs are not easy to find.
We have been working with different groups of beach rangers ever since,in both the pacific and the caribbean territories  and  have now completed 3 full studies, with the help of these community members that are getting empowered through the habits of recycling and permaculture.

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Ecopazifico first started as a  permaculture and art program, where we thought in our perfect world that we would be just turning all this plastic into art and live happily ever after, protecting the whales while making what we love. 

As we started the project we realized that the inhabitants of the pacific coast have no other choice than to burn and bury their trash, and even locals, tourists, and cargo boats just throw it all mixed up in plastic bags into the sea, creating a never ending story of plastic pollution invasion in those prestige ecosystems. 

That’s when we realized that our project had to design a waste management system for the community, introducing the basics of recycling and creating new and simple environmental  habits for  the new generations.

We  started writing letters, and having meetings, calls, appointments and all types of lobbying with government institutions and realized that many institutions had tried to figure out how to keep those beaches clean, but the challenges are just incredibly huge. 

its far, its raining all the time, electricity is really intermittent, and all types of dangers are to be encountered, mosquitoes can kill you, poisonous snakes can bite you, strong ocean currents can drag you, and not to mention the drug and armed forces cartels that love to make their moves around this remote places.

 The community is really tired not only from cleaning the beach, but also tired of the promises made and not kept by the government. 

So they just gave up, the easy way out is to bury and burn their mixed waste any where they can. including the public beach. 

This machines are built with the open source of Precious Plastic organization from Holland.

The organization Burnerswithoutborders, helped us, manifest the shredder machine. We need the rest of the machines in order to start the system.

DONATE A MACHINE:

By Bank tranfer
Bancolombia
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Nit : 900988214 (TIN

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Formula for a waste management in most remote coastal communities of Colombia:

We identify three main types of waste:

1. Recyclables
2. Organic
3. Sanitary waste 

Recyclable materials should be brought to your nearest recycling station,( there are now 10 of them in Juanchaco and Ladrilleros)  

• Plastic
• Glass
• Metals
• STYROFOAM

These materials should be collected by the Beach Rangers or the local navy truck, and brought to the recycling center.

Sanitary waste:

This is the real problem.

This type of waste should be buried in your own backyard and never t in the public beach. 

( this is obviously a government issue, but since in these remote places there are no aqueducts, sewage, landfills, nor waste management systems we do consider that the less harmful way to deal with toilet paper is by burying it. The problem is when people use diapers, tampons, pads, and other hygiene products containing plastic … So frutrating…. What would you do?

Video sobre el manejo de los residuos en juanchaco esta aqui :

We designed an Environmental Education program  and have been campaigning  since 2014 so that both inhabitants and tourists behave according to the fragile ecosystem that surrounds us. 

3 steps for tourist:

1.Bring your own reusable utensils when you come visit, so that you avoid single use plastics

2.Help out cleaning the beach 

3.go back to your hometown with your own trash and the one you collected on the beach.

3 steps for community:

1. Separate waste at home 

2. Do not litter, burn or bury any type of waste  on the  public beach

3. Deal with sanitary waste in your own property.

I Know this last one seems surreal, but sanitary waste is the biggest real problem.

Toilets in Colombia are not as sophisticated as in Europe or first world countries. 

You always need to deposit your toilet paper into a separate bin, otherwise toilets get clogged. 

If you would only not use plastic tampons, pads, diapers, q-tips, band-aids, etc… you could just compost it.  So we are trying to convince women and the population to turn into menstrual cups, reusable fabric pads or diapers, and even talking about more advanced subjects like the free bleeding movement and the elimination-communication  non-diaper practices for parents. 

If your company  makes eco-friendly sanitary products and you feel like contributing to these remote coastal communities in order to protect the ecosystems, do get in touch with us 

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If you are an artist and would like to be part of our Artist Residency program here are the options:

1. Make an art piece in your country and donate it to Ecopazifico.

2. Mountain HQ stay at our cozy artist recidency in the mountains of Dapa near Cali, and make an art piece with the Mapare that we had collected from different clean ups.

3. Pacific Coast. MAPARE jungle. Our spot in the Pacific coast is the @PacificoHostel. you can stay at this amazing jungle hostel in exchange of a beach plastic art piece that you are to co create with children and community.

4. Caribbean Coast MAPARE bliss. Our spot in the Caribbean side is @Namastebeachclub. You are also welcome to stay here if you are to make an art piece with children and community.

THIS ART PIECES ARE OUR TOOLS TO GET SPONSORS!

BE PART OF THE CHANGE!

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This last visit of the year 2021 to the territory of Capurganá was very profitable because the ministry of the environment @minambientecol , the ministry of housing @minvivienda and the superintendence, with whom we visited the open-pit landfill, and the collection center, which are on the verge of collapse as almost all dumps of the Pacific , Atlantic, and the Colombian Caribbean.

Through environmental education and socialization programs, we must achieve that people become more empathetic and coherent with the environment where they live.

We hope that these ties and attention of the ministries to the territory, provide the necessary support to these communities that need it so much! Meanwhile, Ecopazifico will continue to manage with sponsors, allies and friends, the resources that can contribute to improving the recycling systems of the community and mitigate the arrival of waste to the landfill, which should become a sanitary landfill only for sanitary waste as its name suggests.

The real environmental heroes of Capurganá are the workers of the community council’s sanitation company: #Jacasep Thanks to their hard work in Capurganá there has not been an environmental catastrophe.

To celebrate Capurganá station #4 , the #Formidbales of Ecopazifico went to Sapzurro where their friends from @casamolahostel , to join forces and clean the beaches of the paradisiacal Cabo Tiburón.

Exaggerated amounts of micro plastics, bottles, and flip flops make the beauty of this paradise is interrupted by great frustration.

We collected: 38.27 kgs.

✨PET: 8.61 kgs.

✨Glass: 18.57 kgs

✨Rigid plastic: 6.09 kgs

✨Lightweight plastic: 4.0 Kgs

✨Metal: 1 kgs

We hope that soon we will be able to evacuate everything that is accumulated in the collection center and that both Bahía Aguacate and Sapzurro can stop burning their waste and that which arrives from the sea, in addition to income generation.

This fourth recycling station in Capurganá was built with 600 kg of post-consumer plastic by our friends from @ecoazulco, and transported from Cartagena to the territory by our dear @armadacolombia.

The infographic of this station can be found at the back of station #1 in the field. This one shares with us how to give management to the 3 different groups of waste generated in the area:

✨Recyclables

✨Organic

✨Sanitary or unusable waste

and how we can manage them to mitigate our environmental impact on the territory.

We invite you to watch on our Youtube channel 4 educational videos we made with the beautiful voice of @margaritamariaortega where we explain this system, the 3 steps of the ideal tourist, and the 3 steps to live in a clean community.

We thank @cocacacolacol and #fundacioncocacola for their support of this project. And to all our Formidables and allies

@cocomanorte 

#Jacasep ♻️

@apreservar.dc

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The theme of this socialization was to emphasize the practice of composting in the community. In it we prioritized native restaurants and hotels located in the sector of the station, among them @hotelrestaurantearrecife, @portobluemoon, @miramira_beach_hotel received us in 5 houses of the neighbors, we clarified doubts and shared some routines that already demonstrate a beginning of the correct disposal of animal waste. In addition, we identified that despite the fact that some of them already recycle plastic and cans, they mix the rest of the waste due to lack of knowledge, so the topic was reinforced with the hotels and in one of them with visitors and guests.

Part of this socialization exercise was the process of creating a blue crab, a species that abounds on the island, with caps collected by our allied foundation @amigosdelmar, and the support of the wonderful Brayan @descafeinad.o Valery @valerin98 and Diana’s daughter from @fundacion_bahia.

You can see this beautiful crab when you visit the Punta Arena community, along with the Hawksbill turtle by Diana Gomez @arteterapiamar, the parrot fish by Maria Antonia @mariantoniart and the sea horse by @marion.ve

We are very happy to have the environmental guard as an ally and our Guardaplayas firm with the environmental education of this territory.

To celebrate Punta Arena community recycling station #4 , we synchronized the beach cleanup with the full moon day.

Volunteers from @fundacion_bahia, @amigosdelmar, and @namastebeachclub, visited us to walk the beaches and trails and collect the waste that should not be in these areas, if not in the recycling station, in the collection center of #asocomangle , in @ecoazulco becoming plastic wood, or in some recycling factory in Colombia.

In this clean-up, we noticed that there was a lot of sachet packaging, especially candy and water bags.

After the day we celebrated in the facilities of the eco-hotel @namastebeachclub, to the rhythm of Afro-house, with @djmontiel.em and @elduardolopez, yoga classes by @pranapana, and ended the night with songs by @rodrigomancera and @johannamarin and then a beautiful cocoa ceremony with @pilotodrone, and a concert of Tibetan bowls with @micheff.g , @ginafegali, and @healandtravel.

We also showcased the crab created by Maria Antonia @mariantoniart , Brayan @descafeinad.o , Valery @valerin98 and Diana’s daughter from @fundacion_bahia

In Punta Arena the beaches are getting cleaner and people are putting the stations to very good use. That makes us very happy 😍😍😍.

Punta Arena already has its fourth recycling station #4 💪🥳.

This beautiful station was made with 600 kilos of recycled plastic wood by our friends from @ecoazulco , you can find it on the beach next to @portobluemoon restaurant on the pirate street!

At this station we remind locals how to compost step by step.

In communities like punta arena and remote and coastal places in Colombia , most people have a garden and patio where they can put all the organic waste they generate; fruit, vegetable and egg shells, coffee grounds, and also dry leaves and sticks, ash, sawdust, and even cardboard.

Just create a hole under a tree and mix your organic waste with a shovel once a week.

It is very easy to take care of the planet, we just need to change our habits and think about the future of the next generations.

More and more Formidables are joining these initiatives! 😍😍😍

Thanks to all the volunteers and also thanks always to our allies, for all these actions that fill our souls with joy and motivation to continue caring for our planet. @cocacacolacol

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Although many of them separate their trash, they are still getting used to the fact that the white bag is for recyclables and the black bag for ordinary.
In Capurganá a lot of cardboard comes out, it is very bulky and is sold at a very low cost in the city of turbo. In places like Bahía aguacate and Sapzurro, we see that it is better to use cardboard for composting than to accumulate it.

Many establishments give their organic waste to the town’s pigs, something that makes it much easier not to contribute to Capurganá’s open-pit landfill that is on the verge of collapse.

Ilana Levy @ilanadecolombia with her character Gladys from @caliclown gave a green card to those who give good waste management. Red card to those who don’t much and a yellow card to those who committed to improve!
We also handed out signage for recycling bins in Aguacate Bay, Sapzurro, and supermarkets in town. We hope that together with #Jacasep, the town’s cleaning company, these habits can be strengthened and people become aware of the future of the next generations!

This third recycling station was installed at the beginning of the path of a very magical place called Coquerita, leaving the beach of Capurganá. To get to this magical place, you have to walk 1 hour. It is one of the most beautiful walks you will ever do in your life.

Being such a secluded place, it is difficult to evacuate the debris that comes with the tides. However, it’s not impossible, we got together with @youngtravelersco travelers and the coquerita team and left one of the beaches spotless in just 3 hours.

At the end of the day when we thought we should walk back to town carrying sacks, a friendly boat showed up and offered to pick us up and take us back to town with the sacks. We felt that mother earth was thanking us for this work.
The beach was impeccable!

What we found the most on this beach were flip flops, rigid plastic and pet bottles.
The rigid plastic or #mapare, was great to make a mosaic, and the beach was full of divine rafts to make a little house with more time, more hands and more sacks we could create something beautiful in that spot!

In the cleanup 10 formidable participated and collected 131 kgs.
✨PET: 23 kg
✨Pasta: 45kg
✨Tapitas: 6 kgs.
✨Slippers: 57 kg

For the construction of this station 600 kilos of post-consumer plastic were used, it was built by our friends from @ecopazul, and transferred from Cartagena in the BDA ship of our beloved @armadacolombia.

This station has an infographic that teaches us step by step how to make compost in remote, coastal, paradisiacal, and ecosystemically rich places in Colombia, in order to reduce the generation of methane gas in landfills. This gas is 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so returning organic waste to the land through composting is an excellent alternative to avoid the harmful effects of these gases in the environment.

We thank @cocacolaco and #fundacióncocacola for supporting these initiatives that help us promote care for the environment 🌍 As well as @cocomanorte 🥥

Jacasep ♻️ @apreservar.dc and all the allied and formidable hotels that joined this operation station.

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They were with us in the titanic task of removing more than 17 tons of glass from the territory and with whom we began the adequacies of the future Permaculture center in the holistic hotel @Namastebeachclub.

The marines of Tierra Bomba @arc_fuerzanavaldelcaribe , learned about the recycling system, the 3 steps of the tourist, the 3 steps of the community, composting, and the technique of lasagna Gardening or vegetable garden lasagna. A way to do organic agriculture, using different layers of organic matter such as cardboard, sticks, straw, and soil to optimize the decomposition process.

We also created a compost bin, and these same methods will soon be replicated at the base of the island.

During that week the artist Maria Antonia Ruiz @mariantoniart from the island of San Andres, created a beautiful parrot fish with 1956 colorful bottle caps, to remind the inhabitants and visitors of Punta arena, the importance of taking care of marine species.

Do you know why this fish is called this way?
It has a curious dentition, it is like a compact block that serves to gnaw incessantly the reefs of its habitat. This structure resembles the beak of a parrot, which is why it is known by this name.

For the weekend of love and friendship, Ecopazifico and its allies @amigosdelmar @fundacion_bahía and @namastebeachclub, joined together to celebrate the international day of coastal regions, with a beach cleanup, in honor of the new recycling station installed in the territory.

In this cleanup we collected :
-Glass 71 kg
-PET 32 kg
-Rigid Plastic 5 kg
-Bottle caps 6 kg
-Ordinary 103 kg
-Aluminum 0.50 kg
-Scrap 6 kg

That day we exhibited the parrot fish mural made by our guest artist María Antonia Ruiz @mariantoniart and celebrated the rest of the day with yoga activities, and human mandalas at @namastebeachclub.

All these activities were done with the objective of inaugurating our recycling station #3 installed in the community of #puntaarena , which is becoming more and more beautiful. This station was manufactured by our friends from the plastic wood factory @ecoazulco with 600 kilos of recycled plastic wood.

In it both inhabitants and visitors will be able to dispose
these 4 recyclable materials:

-Plastic
-Glass
-Metal
-Icopor

The #guardaplayas of the environmental guard of Punta Arena, make sure that these 4 stations are kept clean, and the material is delivered to the association of recyclers of the community: Asocomangle.

The infographic of this station reminds us of 3 fundamental steps that we can follow to get used to live in a clean community:

1. Separate waste in each
   (recyclables, organic, sanitary)
2. Do not burn or bury waste in marshes, beaches or on trails.
3. Keeping the surroundings of each area clean at all times.

We trust the community.
We trust the tourists.
We trust in humanity.

As always we are immensely grateful to the @armadacolombia for being part of our project and contributing each time to the environmental education of the remote and coastal territories of Colombia. We also thank our allies @amigosdelmar @fundacion_bahia and @guardia_ambiental_colombia for being part of our team.

Infinite thanks @cocacolacol and #fundacioncocacola for supporting this project.

Take a look at the activities we did during this Limpiaventura

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