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Industrial and domestic wastewater, everything is dumped into the river. So much that some parts of its course have become dark and murky. It definitely no longer has the lustre its name suggests. Chinese authorities are devising immediate solutions.
Travel journal
20.01.2020
Our time on the Pearl River has come to an end
LOGBOOK 7 #PERALRIVER
I have to admit that the environmental status of the river is better than I ever thought. I'm happy about that, but part of me wanted to wallow in plastic, in a pile of plastic. Perhaps the message of how urgent it is for us to change would come louder to the eyes and ears of the people who followed me.
17.01.2020
Like the antennas of an insect, your feet try to understand
LOGBOOK 6 #PERALRIVER
For many years, Folco has been walking barefoot. He walked barefoot in China, too.So I’ve asked him why, what’s the point of it? And he said to me: Generally, we walk barefoot to simplify, to return to the earth, to feel it with our hands down.
16.01.2020
As always, long-term change is an uphill battle
LOGBOOK 5 #PERALRIVER
As always, long-term change is an uphill battle, and this can be seen on the riverbanks, but what is heartening is that a relatively poor country has made a conscious choice to shift its focus from the quantity to the quality of growth.
15.01.2020
The weight of the boat makes our paddling slow, very slow, painfully slow
LOGBOOK 4 #PERALRIVER
The weight of the boat makes our paddling slow, very slow, painfully slow. Slowness sometimes also represents a danger because, with all the traffic of ships that we encounter, we must be rather quick to change course and avoid collisions
13.01.2020
Plastic and China, in everyone’s imagination, this relationship is as close and obvious as beer with pizza
LOGBOOK 3 #PERALRIVER
So, here we are. Busy sailing on one of the world’s ten most plastic polluted rivers. Plastic and China, in everyone's imagination, this relationship is as close and obvious as beer with pizza. In fact, China has a big history with plastic. Throughout its rise to economic prominence, China has manufactured and exported a huge amount of plastic products to eventually become the world’s largest plastic producer in 2013. As a result of this production and poor internal management, China is also leading the world in terms of plastic waste, specifically the amount of plastic debris contributed to our oceans.
10.01.2020
He wanted isolation and metaphysical experiences with nature, I was offering him a real navigation.
LOGBOOK 2 #PERALRIVER
He wanted isolation and metaphysical experiences with nature, I was offering him a real navigation on a very polluted river, in one of the most urbanized places in the world, where nature was just a distant memory. Yet, a week later, it was he who called me and said, "Let's go!”.
09.01.2020
The “10 Rivers 1 Ocean” project has arrived in the Pearl rivers
LOGBOOK 1 #PERALRIVER
Over 2,000 kilometers long, it is the third longest river in China. On its delta, in Guangdong Province, the largest megacity in the world arose, home to a population of over 40 million. It comes as no surprise then that it is the seventh most plastic-polluted river in the world, with about 100,000 tons of plastic poured into the China Sea every year. The "10 Rivers 1 Ocean" project has arrived in the Pearl rivers.
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