How to make eco friendly plant pots
How to make eco friendly plant pots because the world has too many plastic plant pots that end up in landfill.
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Tyrone Probert
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Your essential guide to recycled ocean plastics
Your essential guide to recycling ocean plastics with an easy chart documenting the most common materials found on UK coasts.
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Tyrone Probert
- Oct 17, 2022
- 2 min
Recycling plastic demos- Ocean Plastic Plant Pots – LIVE demos in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
Plastic recycling demos. We recycle fishing nets and ropes and transform them into our ocean plastic products
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Tyrone Probert
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
6 Reasons why our plant pots are different to most others on the market
Production has started on a unique, designer, decorative plant pot made from recycled ocean plastics. The Ecotribo ‘Oceana’ plant pot is...
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Tyrone Probert
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
How to design more eco friendly products 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...
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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....
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tyrone Probert
- Jun 5, 2019
- 1 min
How blue Jeans are going green
The future of indigo dying jeans is now foam. Manufacturers are now breaking with the usual wasteful methods of jeans production...
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Tyrone Probert
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
A country that is not only carbon neutral, its carbon negative
The UK of tomorrow, as well as the rest of the world, can achieve zero-emissions and I can share with you how another country is doing...
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Tyrone Probert
- Apr 7, 2019
- 3 min
Making the worlds first Ai generated Biomaterial.
Is it possible to use Ai to enerate new biomaterials recipes to save the planet from plastic? I have been designing and developing...
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