Background & challenges

Making Plastic Odyssey's ballast water drinkable and safe 

We met Plastic Odyssey at the Change Now trade fair. Shortly afterwards, Plastic Odyssey called on InovaYa to install water treatment and safety units on its vessel, enabling the crew to avoid using plastic bottles for their drinking water on board. This first project has given rise to a beautiful partnership between our two teams, who are aligned to promote the importance of sustainable management of natural resources: Plastic Odyssey with its laboratory for low-tech recycling methods, and InovaYa with our on-board water treatment technologies and a member of our team present on the ship to raise awareness of water usage.

Thanks to the installation of 2 InovaYa treatment units, it is now possible to produce drinking water from ballast water, and to secure the ship's mains water supply during its stopovers. Since October 2022, the unYo and aYa units have produced over 28m3 of drinking water from ballast water, secured over 600 m3 of mains water, and saved over 28,000 1.5L plastic bottles.

Thanks to Thibault Roudier, our InovaYa ambassador on board Plastic Odyssey, we were able to meet water stakeholders from all over the world, initiate local partnerships during stopovers and discover local practices in terms of access to drinking water.