Activates young people, develops and implements innovative solutions, and mobilizes an ocean workforce to restore the health of the ocean in our lifetime.
Decades of ocean mismanagement combined with a rapidly growing population; industrialisation and the ever increasing threats created by climate change place the long-term health of the ocean on a delicate precipice.
Without a healthy ocean there can be no healthy ‘us’. It’s imperative that humankind rapidly reduces unnecessary damage to the ocean and develops a new future that preserves, regenerates and restores ocean ecosystems.
We live on our mother Planet Earth. 70% of the earth's surface is covered by ocean and the aquatic wonderland beneath the sea contains vastly more habitable space than the terrestrial landmass populated by humans.
The Ocean regulates our climate; produces two thirds of the oxygen we breathe; fuels the water cycle; sustains the livelihoods and provides nourishment for nearly three billion people; is fundamental to diverse cultures; is essential to global transport; is critical to addressing climate change and is home to millions of marine species, many of which are yet to be studied by science.
But Planet Ocean is in danger.
Plastic has a short but earth-changing history.
Plastic was actually born from admirable goals: To make consumer products more accessible and take pressure off of severely exploited natural resources. How, then, did plastic pollution become one of the greatest threats to our natural environment and pollute our marine ecosystem?
We make seaweed-based packaging that replenishes the social and ecological systems harmed by petroleum plastics.
Every day, 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into the ocean. Plastic waste has been found on the world’s most remote islands, its deepest seafloors, and its highest peaks. Plastic even finds its way into our bodies — you ingest tens of thousands of microplastics every year.