While we have just presented the projects for 2025, projects from previous years are celebrating their anniversaries. 🎂

This is an opportunity for Charlie, our scientific coordinator, to take stock with the researchers we support. This time, we’re heading for Brazil and France with Rafael Trevisan, leader of the PlastiDrugs project.

👉 His objective? To understand the cocktail effects of microplastics and emerging pollutants (medicines, drugs, additives) in two emblematic bays:

Santos (Brazil), where wastewater is very poorly treated,

Brest (France), which is more controlled but also heavily urbanised.

💡 His initial hypothesis? Microplastics act like magnets for pollutants, transporting them around the environment… and delivering them directly into the organisms that ingest them.

📊 After 12 months of research:

Numerous pollutants have been found on plastics (including… cocaine, yes, you read that right),

Ecotoxicity tests on sea urchins show real effects on development,

This summer, tests on juvenile oysters and immune cells will complete the picture,

And already a scientific publication in the pipeline!

✨ This project wouldn’t exist without you: your support makes all the difference. Thank you 💙

🔁 Would you also like to support research that has a tangible impact on the health of the Ocean – and our own? Let’s talk about it!