10/05/2025
Fière de ma Rachel qui a participé à cette Expédition! Le plastique dans nos corps sont si toxiques 🐬🐟🐠
Why women?
Our Founder, Emily Penn, wanted to understand the effects plastic might be having on her body. Her early research missions revealed that plastic was entering the food chain and she found herself wondering if these chemicals associated with plastic were affecting her body too.
Emily was tested for 35 chemical pollutants, all banned by the UN because they are toxic to humans. 29 of them were found in her blood. Some of these can cause life-threatening diseases, and many are endocrine disruptors which stop important chemical messages moving around our bodies. For women, this can pose a particular problem during pregnancy. These chemicals can then be passed on to babies in the womb, and through breastfeeding.
Joining the dots between plastic, the ocean and ourselves, and motivated by the possible effects of pollutants on female health, this experience was one of the catalysts that influenced the foundations of eXXpedition.
Women remain under-represented in science, sailing and exploration, and eXXpedition is passionate about addressing this by highlighting positive role models, gathering teams of talented women from all disciplines; to experience the plastic problem, collect data, make connections, and figure out how to tackle it together.
📸: Fade Meraki Manning
