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2026: The Ocean Hike 3.0: Hiking +1000km around all Azorian islands meeting communities to learn and raise awareness about ocean conservation!

Release of The Microplastic Font – Download and Infos here! 

Achievements

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2025: European Trash Art Campaign to help the NGO OceanCare to deliver an ocean conservation petition to the UN Ocean Conference.

2025: The Trash Travelers Board Game !
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2024: The Ocean Hike Madeira – Awareness adventure with a mission to walk the entire coast of Portugal meeting local communities. Documentary upcoming.

2024: The Trash Traveler continued his mission of walking the entire coastline of Portugal to raise awareness in the “The Ocean Hike” project. After hiking 1152 km along the continental coast in 2020, Madeira & Porto Santo were the next chapter, adding 280 awareness km, meeting 561 people and collecting 950 km of trash to raise awareness.

2024: TEDx Talk in Porto – YouTube

2023: Delivering the Petition for a Deposit Return Scheme in Portugal to the ministery of environment. As a resultation of The Trash Cycle project around Portugal. Articles: RTP , JN , Ambiente

2023: 750.000 cigarette butts picked within only 1 week. Mobilizing a community of 1400 people around Portugal to help. More Info. Articles around the world from China to Argentina, from Germany to America.

2023: Premiere: The Trash Cycle Documentary in Faro

2022: Winner of the title “Big Changer” by Electrão

2022: The Trash Cycle around Portugal – 2370 km with an old bicycle around Portugal with daily clean up / awareness actions with schools, municipalities, initiatives and general public.

2022: The Butt Hike Documentary

2021: Winner of the second edition of Academia Electrão in the category “Arte Electrão”

2021: The Butt Hike – 1.1 million cigarette butts collected with +600 people and 70 NGOs / inititatives

2021: The Plastic Hike A Exposição

2021: Realease: The Plastic Hike Documentary

2020: 2nd place in Worldwide Vissla & Surfrider Surfboard Upcycling Contest: Trash found at the beach was transformed into a surfboard.

2020: The Plastic Hike (EN / PT Video): A hiking every single meter of the coast of Portugal in 58 days (1132 km). 1.6 tons of plastic collected with +550 people and +80 NGOs/ intitiatives.

2019 – 2020: Travel Trash Project (EN / PT Video): 1 ton of plastic collected in 160 days in a row. An Ukulele song and trash video was produced every single day.