Environmental campaigner and MEP hopeful Cami Appelgren is to travel around the entire coastline of Malta in a kayak made from recycled plastic, to highlight the issue of sea pollution.

A small team of experienced kayakers, led by Ms Appelgren, will kayak around Malta on April 27 and 28, stopping only from sunset to sunrise for the group to make camp.

She will also be going ashore in remote bays that are inaccessible by foot, because of washed-up litter and material.

The kayakers will be followed by a safety boat and the rubbish they collect will be taken away to be properly disposed of. The trip will be trackable via GPS and live updates will be provided by both the safety boat crew and the kayakers themselves.

I would like to see clean-ups become part of the education curriculum in Maltese schools

Ms Appelgren, who is contesting the MEP elections on behalf of the Democratic Party, is an environmental activist and founder of Malta Clean Up, an ongoing campaign to clean up Malta and improve its environment through civil action.

“I hope this kayaking trip will highlight how plastic pollution is an issue in Maltese waters, and also how important it is that we clean it up whenever we find it," she said.

“I would like to see clean-ups become part of the education curriculum in Maltese schools. Through this trip I want to highlight how we can make a change if we work together.

Her #Kayak2Cleanup trip is being sponsored by Blexr, a performance marketing company based in Sliema.

Eduardo dos Remedios, Blexr’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “I spend a lot of time in the waters around Malta, swimming and freediving, and have witnessed first-hand the increasing levels of plastic pollution in the sea."