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.
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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 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...
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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...
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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
- 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...
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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
- Feb 22, 2019
- 2 min
Finding solutions to plastic waste. Working with Bio Materials
There have been some exciting developments at the tribes home base in Bristol, United Kingdom. We have been exploring the many material...
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Tyrone Probert
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
OCEAN – A designer chair made from recycled plastic
OCEAN – Each piece of the chair represents a letter of the precious ocean we all share. When we work together we can find solutions. I...
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Tyrone Probert
- Jan 22, 2018
- 2 min
New range of surf & home products made in the UK from recycled ocean plastic
[fusion_text]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...
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