OCEAN CLEANUP SUNGLASSES PATCH

“We are happy to have joined forces with Safilo, one of the top global eyewear companies, for the creation of our first product made from the trash we collected in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Our investment in using recycled materials is aligned with our continued efforts towards promoting a responsible business and is part of Safilo’s commitment to People, Product and Planet.” Our design team worked hard to combine our long history of eyewear manufacturing with material innovations to ensure the high quality, stylistic content, and uniqueness of this final product. “More than a year ago, Boyan called us and explained the project he had in mind, and we felt honored to be part of this mission to give a second life to the plastic collected from the ocean. “I am very proud of this new project which we have developed in conjunction with The Ocean Cleanup,” commented Angelo Trocchia, CEO of Safilo Group. The sunglasses will be available exclusively on The Ocean Cleanup website, and 100% of the proceeds will go to the continuation of the clean-up mission. Each pair of sunglasses is estimated to enable cleaning an equivalent of 24 football fields worth of the GPGP and when every pair from the first batch is claimed, that will equate to approximately 500,000 football fields of clean-up in the GPGP.

OCEAN CLEANUP SUNGLASSES PATCH

The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses are made with injected plastic deriving from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), using an innovative upcycling process able to include types of plastic that have traditionally been more difficult to recycle, turning them into a high-quality and safe material.Īvailable in limited-edition, each pair of sunglasses will carry a unique QR code that directly connects the user to background information about the product, the project, and the specific place where the marine plastic pollution was removed from. Safilo Group, announces the first eyewear product from recycled plastic specially made for The Ocean Cleanup, the well-known Dutch non-profit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans.

Ocean cleanup sunglasses