OUR ECOTRIBO STORY

Ecotribo was founded by Tyrone, a  lifelong surfer from South Africa. Joined by his wife Carrie they have spent their careers in the creative industries of advertising and television while spending as much time as possible at the coast. 

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Having explored various design avenues to help the ocean, including biomaterials and beach cleaning, they focussed on what could be with the recovered plastics. Inspired by the work of Burea in South America and Precious Plastics from the Netherlands, the adventure of recycling ocean retrieved plastics began. 

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All materials have from the start been collected, processed and manufactured here in the UK. Such is the threat of greenwashing in the recycling world they instigated a geolocation method on each products' label in 2021 to specify from which beach clean the nets had been sourced. Now known as EcoTraceAbility® we continue to highlight how true transparency in recycling is the best way to encourage hope in our collective creativity to tackle these environmental challenges.

 

The small batches of pots fabricated from each net found became a way to further highlight the work of our partners such as Clean Ocean Sailing in south Cornwall, Captain Paul Watson Foundation in Pambrokeshire and the many other dedicated beach cleaning groups, without which we couldn't do what we do! Head to the ACTION pages to read more of their heroic stories.

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