Your essential guide to recycling ocean plastics
Your essential guide to recycling ocean plastics with an easy chart documenting the most common materials found on UK coasts.
top of page
BLOG
Search
Tyrone Probert
- Mar 6
- 1 min
High Seas Treaty gets UN approval
We are passionate about real and actionable solutions to ocean plastic, so we are incredibly excited to see this exciting new...
12 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Oct 17, 2022
- 2 min
Making Recycled Ocean Plastic Plant Pots – LIVE demos on the quayside in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
Attending the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival this summer was an absolute pleasure. Clean Ocean Sailing invited us, one of the...
18 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
A solar lamp made from recycled ocean plastics
I have been playing around with various product design ideas over the years utilising recycled ocean plastics. I made a plant pot from...
12 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min
How can a plant pot protect the sea & make people fall in love with it?
When we love something deeply, we will always protect it. This is the premise of Ecotribo and one of the reasons I started it. It started...
1 view0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
New Recycled Ocean Plastic Sculpture to raise awareness
‘Beach plastics suck’ – A new sculpture made from recycled ocean plastics, wood and bio-resin collected from my beach cleans. I’ve been...
4 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min
The Marine Litter Strategy – 10 key findings
Ocean plastic is everywhere and an urgent response is needed from the government and the marine industries. Marine Scotland is updating...
2 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Transforming ocean plastic waste into recycled ocean plastic plant pots
For many years we have been working towards how we can turn the tide on ocean plastic and marine waste with design and creative thinking....
0 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
6 Reasons why this plant pot is different to anything else on the market
Production has started on a unique, designer, decorative plant pot made from recycled ocean plastics. The Ecotribo ‘Oceana’ plant pot is...
5 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Ecotribo – Positive Eco News
I am a designer and environmentalist, and in my research, I come across a wide range of positive eco stories. We have some serious...
2 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
How to design a more environmentally friendly product and make it better?
This was a question which originally appeared and I answered on Quora : What innovative methods can I use to redesign my product? I...
4 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Plastic-free wetsuit hangers. Made from recycled wetsuits and sustainable FSC wood
I’ve always been looking for a wetsuit hanger that can hold all my surf gear in one place. Also something with a mission to help our...
4 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Jan 1, 2021
- 3 min
Plant pots made from recycled ocean plastics. Reducing plastic in our oceans
Using plastic in the ocean – cleaning our seas planting hope. The ‘Oceana’ plant and flower pot made from recycled ocean plastics....
15 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Jan 1, 2021
- 3 min
Plant pots made from recycled ocean plastics. Reducing plastic in our oceans
Using plastic in the ocean – cleaning our seas planting hope. The ‘Oceana’ plant and flower pot made from recycled ocean plastics....
2 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
Wetsuit hanger made from recycled wetsuits & FSC wood
A new range of ecofriendly wetsuit hangers made from recycled/upcycled wetsuits made in Bristol for surfers, Kitesurfer’s, SUP surfers,...
2 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Mudguards made from 100% recycled plastic. A new Ecotribo collaboration with Rideguard.
Ecotribo has launched a new mountain bike mudguard made from 100% recycled plastic with Bristol-based business, Rideguard. Tyrone...
4 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- May 4, 2020
- 5 min
Recycled ocean plastics to make Bicycle mudguards – The story so far…
Ecotribo is excited about our OceanX recycled ocean plastics project with Rideguard. We will be making the worlds first bicycle mudguards...
5 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Ecotribo Eco Designs that will change the world- Part 2
Part two of Ecotribo Designs that will change the world. As per the previous post I thought it would be a good idea to explore, in more...
3 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Plastic Waste – Designing, prototyping, manufacturing a circular, local economy
I have been on a journey of discovery for quite a while. As a surfer for over 30 years I love the sea, I grew up in South Africa on the...
4 views0 comments
Tyrone Probert
- Nov 20, 2019
- 2 min
OceanX Bicycle Mudguards made from recycled Ocean Plastics now on Kickstarter
Since the launch of Ecotribo we have been on a mission to make a sustainable design business and have been trying to develop strategies...
4 views0 comments
bottom of page