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After coming up with the concept, we have now completed our initial prototype of OceanHero and started to develop features. Building a search engine is actually quite a complex task. You need a few big partnerships and quite a lot of data sources. On top, competing with enourmous tech companies is not so easy.
We signed our first partnership with Plastic Bank and started supporting them to create recycling systems, creating a circular plastic economy.
Plastic Bank has over 500 collection points around the world, benefiting over 25,000 people by improving livelihoods, employment, education, services and technology for developing communities.
The plastic is reborn as Social Plastic® and used in products and packaging through the partners, preventing the need to create new plastic. The goal is to override the market’s demand for virgin plastic by using recycled materials that are better for the environment.
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A new report was published by Greenpeace Germany, reporting that dumped fishing gear was the biggest polluter of the oceans!
Our first campaign was launched, highlighting the impact on marine life and what individuals can do to help. We aim to educate people about the issues surrounding plastic waste and campaign for better waste management systems. Until 2021, we reached already a few million people with this campaign.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171491
At the start of the year, China announced a ban on single-use plastic items such as straws and plastic bags!
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Aside from Plastic Bank, we just signed a partnership with Waste Free Oceans to support them in their excellent work in collecting marine litter using fishing boats.
https://www.facebook.com/wastefreeocean/posts/3583171958409000
Waste Free Oceans organizes beach and riverside cleanups in partnership with local volunteers in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East!
Our partner, Waste Free Oceans shared it's vision to create manufacturing panels from recycled plastic waste, that are affordable and eco-friendly.
We are happy to celebreate with Plastic Bank their seventh anniversary! In this picture you see the team in the Philippines that collected 176,000kg of ocean-bound plastic since their founding.
Meanwhile, we also have updates from the tech involved in OceanHero. We worked hard to source data from Wikipedia and started to display them next to our search results. We hope you like it!
Our YouTube campaign was launched that explains why so much plastic is entering the oceans. More than 180 thousand people saw the campaign in the first year alone.
The pandemic created an increase of plastic waste from PCC, so our partner Waste Free Oceans came up with a solution, using recycled fishing gear to create face shields!
With the financial support from OceanHero, Waste Free Oceans organized an underwater cleanup in Portugal!
https://www.wastefreeoceans.org/post/fishing-for-litter-in-romania
A new project was launched by Waste Free Oceans in Romania, which allows the WFO trash catcher to be attached to fishing boats that collect the floating debris.
https://www.wastefreeoceans.org/post/joint-beach-clean-up-in-greece
More than 30 volunteers took part in the clean-up operation organized by Waste Free Oceans in Greece. They managed to recover 40 large waste bags, weighing a total of 400kg!
We just joined the Coalition for Aquatic Conservation that was created by the Aquatic Life Institute to bring global leaders and organizations together to develop marine conservation efforts.
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We rolloed out our educational questions that connect people to ocean issues and raise awareness about the ecosystem in general.
The Coalition for Aquatic Conservation held its inaugural meeting, bringing together the world’s leading experts to reduce the suffering of aquatic animals across the globe. The coalition also aims to connect the Aquatic Life Institute’s other networks; bringing together science, veterinar, legal and industry to support aquatic animals.
That’s why we will be building micro recycling plants. Allowing the local community to recycle their waste directly. We have also equipped them with extruders and molds that allow them to create plastic building bricks from the waste they collect. Giving plastic a value.
We’re happy to announce that we brought a new partner on board. They are called Trash Waste Solutions, a NGO from Switzerland. We are working very closely with them to tackle Ocean Pollution in remote villages. Often, they don’t have proper waste management and plastic escapes in the environment.
These are two of our collectors after one of the recent beach clean-ups on Siladen, Indonesia.
As always, a lot of trash has been collected. Here the results from a day of work.
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10O-n6oSkKq5kAM1_gCRR-pl60eiI72MI/view?usp=sharing
We started doing clean-ups in North Sulawesi in Indonesia. The waste we are collecting will later be recycled with one of the local micro recycling plants.
A short update about Waste Free Oceans: They were working hard to improve the operations and now started using sataline images to track the plastic waste in the oceans. This helps to better understand how plastic moves along the currents and find plastic hotspots.
Waste Free Ocean launched a roadshow in Togo to create awareness about plastic waste management. This is still a big issue, as many people do not understand why materials need to be seperated - or collected in the first place.
Waste Free Ocean launched a roadshow in Togo to create awareness about plastic waste management. This is still a big issue, as many people do not understand why materials need to be seperated - or collected in the first place.
The plastic then drips into this molds that form building bricks. Those bricks can then be used by the local community for building projects.
An update from Trash Waste Solutions in Indonesia! The prototype machines that OceanHero financed are now fully built. Here you can see the shredder that cuts the plastic into small flakes.
After the plastic has been shredded, the extruder melts it so that it can be transformed into new plastic.
This is how the plastic looks like after it was melted.
While Trash-Waste-Solutions was busy with clean-ups and recycling plants, Waste Free Oceans launched their technology in Ghana to recover plastic from the oceans using local fishermen!
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Well done to the team for collecting over 72 bags of waste that will be transported to our micro recycling plant to be turned into housing bricks!
Here you can see the extruder that melts plastic for the plastic brick mold.
Meanwhile, Plastic Bank collectors in Indonesia now receive work insurance, which is good news for the 2,500 active collectors in the country.
Here you can see the molds being used to start the process of developing the bricks.
Waste Free Oceans continued the tour around Africa and the WFO plastic recovery technology arrived in Cameroon!
Meanwhile, Plastic Bank collectors in Indonesia now receive work insurance, which is good news for the 2,500 active collectors in the country.