On a weekend in September 2019, sport divers have collected 2,500 kilos of waste from theNorth Sea. At least five hundredkilos comes from containers that were thrown overboard in January from the cargo ship MSC Zoe.
The Dive the North Sea Clean Foundation announced the results.
Divers found about five hundred kilos of clothing, kitchenware, travel suitcases, rugs, toys and car parts on shipwrecks and artificial reefs. Waste from the MSC Zoe was found on every wreck between Ameland and Schiermonnikoog.Some 2,000 kilos of fishing nets were also removed from the water. Fish, lobsters and crabs can get caught in these nets. This example is a good showcase of nano tourism, where the visitors while exercising their sport at the same time help to clean up the islands’ surroundings and deliver a positive contribution.
Source: Duikdenoordzeeschoon – duikdenoordzeeschoon.nl
Example of strategy 6B:
Foster Experiments through Nano-tourism
Nano-tourism can realize best or next practices within crowd co-design:
Nano-tourism is a new, constructed term describing a creative critique to the current environmental, social, and economic downsides of conventional tourism, as a participatory, locally oriented, bottom-up alternative. …. It operates as a social tool to stimulate mutual interaction between the provider and user by co-creation or exchange of knowledge. It is not about scale but is a projected ability to construct responsible experiences from the bottom-up, using local resources. Nano-tourism isbeyond tourism, it is more an attitude to improve specificeveryday environments and to open up new local economies.
Sources: Nanotourism – nanotourism.org and, Simons & Hamer (2019)
