Laura Shaughnessy is the former managing editor at Dockwalk.
Boyan Slat is working hard to turn something negative into a positive that can help the environment. The CEO and founder of The Ocean Cleanup launched eco-sunglasses at the end of October.
The Dutch nonprofit organization creates sunglasses from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) — a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Each pair of sunglasses comes from cleaning an equivalent of 24 football fields worth of GPGP.
Previously, they developed advanced tech to get rid of ocean plastic. And now, they’re able to take the next step by creating a durable, useful product from recovered plastic. They wanted to create something that reminded its consumers of the ocean’s beauty and why it’s so important to keep them clean. All components were designed to be easily dissembled and recycled again. Each pair is $199 and 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to their cleanup operations.
This column is taken from the March 2021 issue of Dockwalk.