Creating The Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses from Ocean Plastic | Cleaning Oceans | The Ocean Cleanup

In this exciting step of the Plastic Journey from trash to treasure, The Ocean Cleanup material, transformed into the final product, The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses. To help us clean the ocean, get yours here: https://bit.ly/3ieCcYR.

On October 24, 2020, Boyan Slat presented our first product, sunglasses, made with ocean plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with 100% of the proceeds going directly into the next cleanup operations. Each pair of sunglasses is estimated to enable cleaning an equivalent of 24 football fields worth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Sunglasses were chosen as the first product because we wanted to sacrifice something that is durable and useful and reminds our supporters of the beauty and importance of our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup™ sunglasses are meant to last and stay valuable, they are designed in California by renowned sustainability designer Yves Béhar, and crafted with care in Italy by Safilo, one of the leading Italian eyewear companies and manufacturer of sunglasses.

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Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.

The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.

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