Odyssey Innovation makes kayaks out of sea plastic, then uses kayaks to collect more
"It seems to be going OK. I don't know if I'm going to make my fortune. That wasn't really the intention anyway. The intention was trying to find a solution ... I think that using business could be a real solution to the plastic pollution problem."
Even today,"it's ridiculously easy" to find plastic in his part of England, Thompson says."There's just so much material out there." He says most of the plastic products that he and others find on beaches have recycling labels on them. He hopes projects like his help show the value of plastic and that it shouldn't be discarded.
"It's absolutely crazy, in a society, that you end up with a resource causing an environmental problem." Thompson says fishing nets make up most of his company's recycled kayaks. Other inputs come from harvested plastic that piles up in remote locations."Everything that can be used is used. The rest goes into other recycling streams."
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