We collect plastic from the ocean

All life origins from the sea.

Let’s protect it!

What does Pro Ocean?

The ocean is drowning in plastic.

8 million tons more each year – about a truck load per minute is dumped into sea.

The amount of plastic added each year varies from 4.8 to 12.7 million tons depending on the source (Science (347), Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, p.769). “This equals one truckload per minute” (“Source”).

To put it another way: 8 million tons correspond to “five shopping bags per 30 centimeters of all worldwide coastlines” (“Source”).

Most of the plastic comes from the poor countries of Asia into the sea.

It is shocking to see that our consumption of plastic on earth continues to increase and that in the future even more plastic will be released into the oceans every year. So we have to find a way to prevent new plastic from entering the oceans by reusing the plastic we produce.

What is done against the flood of plastic?

Many people collect worldwide at beaches, coasts, and rivers; privately or in organizations.

The main part of the plastic that ends up in the sea sinks to the ground and makes recovery almost impossible (“Source”).

This means, it must be prevented that the plastic gets into the sea in the first place. Most of the plastic gets into the sea via rivers, coasts and beaches.

The most important thing is to raise awareness and fight poverty in countries where hunger and lack of garbage collection are commonplace. Under these circumstances, probably very few people would bother to dispose of waste in an environmentally sound manner (Maslow Pyramid).

Here with us, the priority should be to reduce the consumption of plastic. Through targeted purchasing behavior everything can change. The economy and production follow the demand. Donations help us to build up waste disposal structures in countries where these are still lacking or insufficient. By collecting plastic, we prevent even more plastic from going into the sea. In the technical jargon this is also called “ocean bound plastic”.

Who collects
where?

We pay the population suffering from poverty in South East Asia and South America.

Collections are made in the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Haiti and Brazil. We are constantly expanding our network to achieve even more. To pay these people fairly for good work makes us proud.

Collecting plastic has of course a positive environmental impact. But paying people fairly has a much greater effect in the long run. No matter where the plastic waste originally comes from, it ends up in the sea, mostly in Asia and especially in South East Asia. The local population living there can improve their living situation by collecting the plastic and an awareness is created (preliminary stage of a garbage collection).

What happens with the collected plastic?

The plastic gets assorted and shredded. The raw material is sold to manufacture new products.

The collected plastic is cleaned and sorted in the first step. The sorting of the plastic is essential for the recycling of the material. Plastic can only be reused for new products if it is with its same kind, in order to meet the necessary requirements. The plastic is shredded and can now be used to manufacture new products.

Note: We only participate in feeding the plastic back into the cycle until the collected plastic is returned and the collectors are paid. The reuse of the material is important to us. The processing and selling is a downstream process from Pro Ocean.

Why?

Because we care!

We do not shirk our common responsibility towards the ocean.

The ocean is our basis of life, once all life came from the sea. Even today, more than one out of three (“Source”).

We each have personal drives that motivate us every day to improve the situation of the ocean. We all have a close relationship with nature. We are firmly convinced of the ideal that we can live in a harmonious future with our environment.

How much?

We propose to clear 38 kgs of plastic, as the average usage of single use plastics by year per person.

Plastic itself is not the problem, but disposable plastic that is disposed of rather than recycled. Plastic, which remains in the cycle for a long time and is constantly undergoing new products and new life cycles, can be an excellent material. Any plastic that is disposed of after only one use in the environment is very problematic for animals, plants and even the climate. This plastic then takes several hundred years to decompose and becomes increasingly dangerous for humans and animals.

According to the “Plastic Atlas”, the annual consumption of disposable plastic is 38 kg per capita in Germany (“Source”).

To achieve “plastic neutrality” for one person, 38 kg to be recovered is a good average (based on linked statistics from Germany).

Contribute your part now.

Clear your yearly amount of single-use plastics from the ocean and receive the Pro Ocean sticker.

Clear plastic rubbish. Become involved now for today and tomorrow.

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1. Preliminary remarks

Pro Ocean is a brand of Life e.V. Life e.V. offers you the opportunity to contribute to the reduction of plastic waste in the ocean. To this end, it invests in suitable environmental protection projects that remove ocean-bound plastic. Life e.V. tests and certifies the ocean plastic removed here. Depending on the amount of your donation you contribute to a certain volume of removed ocean plastic. You have the opportunity to make your contribution directly to the annual waste volume generated by an average German household. For this Pro Ocean has calculated the average waste volume of a German household, which can deviate from your actual waste volume.

2. Utilisation of your donations

Although only projects are selected, whose operators are considered trustworthy, a certain success cannot be guaranteed with the garbage cleaning by Life registered association. Should it turn out during the examination that a project is not able to remove the plastic garbage from the ocean, as agreed upon, the Life e.V. will be informed. Your donation will be used for another environmental project. In order to avoid bad investments, Life e.V. concludes suitable legal contracts with the project operators. Life e.V. reserves the right to withdraw funding for projects that do not meet their monitoring or other contractual obligations.

If, due to unforeseen obstacles such as increasing project costs with the amount paid by the donor less marketing and administration costs, the removal of ocean-bound plastic, in the quantity specified by the donor or to the standards specified above, is not possible due to the amount paid by the donor, Life e.V. will take appropriate measures from an environmental point of view and report on these in the annual reports.

Life e.V. will publish an overview of the total donations received and the resulting waste disposal at regular intervals, at least in its annual report. On request, it shall grant access to the test certificates for the actually cleaned plastic waste volume from the ocean. There are no further claims for information regarding individual business transactions.

3. Certificate for the clean-up of ocean plastic waste

The project inspectors certify the volume of plastic removed from the ocean and will issue the appropriate certificates. The Life e.V. archives the proofs coming from the projects.

4. Disclaimer of liability

Life e.V. is not liable for the correctness of the information made available to you by the certification organisation or the project operators and the information given in brochures regarding the emissions caused and the emission reductions achieved and other project information.

5. Choice of law

German law applies to all legal relationships between you and Life e.V. resulting from your donation to promote environmental conservation.

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These documents contain copyrighted material. You may not edit, redesign, publish, distribute, transmit, display, participate in the sale or transfer, imitate, or otherwise make commercially useful, in whole or in part, any of the contents of these materials. It is only permitted to make one (1) copy of the protected material for private use.

7. Tax deductibility

Life e.V. is recognized as a non-profit organisation and can issue donation receipts recognised for tax purposes. Therefore, after incoming payments are deductible as a special edition from your taxable income and therefore have income tax-reducing effect.

8. Severability clause

There are no other agreements between you and Life e.V. other than these Terms and Conditions. All other statements made in the documents provided or made available to you are directly related to these Terms and Conditions and explain them without modification or amendment. Should any provision of these Terms and Conditions be invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which shall be amended so as to best achieve the intent of the parties expressed in the invalid provision.

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