Ismael Essome, an engineer from Cameroon, is reusing plastic bottles to create fishing boats. The African country annually produces over 600,000 tons of plastic waste and more than 6 million tons of ...

Plastic Whale organizes boat tours along Amsterdam's canals to collect garbage--in particular plastic--which it then recycles and uses the repurposed material to build boats. Twycer Fifteen years ago, ...

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The world's largest carpet tile manufacturer has joined forces with a plastic fishing company to design and create a unique boat made from more than 7,000 plastic bottles fished from the canals of ...

AMSTERDAM, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda celebrates its long-term partnership with Plastic Whale with the launch of a boat in acknowledgment of World ...

On the 24th of last month, a black boat measuring 6 meters in length and 2 meters in width was exhibited at a booth during the "Korea ESG Eco-Friendly Expo" held at COEX in Samsung-dong, Seoul. The ...

Inaccessible Island, an extinct volcano at the heart of the South Atlantic, sandwiched between South America and Africa but incredibly far from each, is perhaps one of the last places on Earth you’d ...

If we remove plastic from the world’s waterways, what happens to it next? Amsterdam-based Plastic Whale – the “first professional plastic-fishing company in the world” according to founder Marius Smit ...

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For 36 years, Clyde Henriques has built every kind of fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) boat for Mumbai's fishers—from canoes to ...