Italian eyewear group Safilo said it plans to produce sunglasses made with recycled plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), the largest of five plastic islands floating in the world’s oceans. The limited-edition sunglasses will be produced in collaboration with The Ocean Cleanup project, a Dutch non-profit environmental organization, as part of the company’s sustainable business.
They will be made using a recycling process, which allows the use of certain plastics that have usually been more difficult to recycle, turning them into safe material, the company said. The GPGP, located halfway between Hawaii and California, covers an estimated surface of 618,000 square miles, an area three times the size of France.
“We hope they serve as another way to increase global awareness of the urgent need to remove plastic from our acquatic ecosystems,” said Boyan Slat, Chief Executive of The Ocean Cleanup.
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Author: Reuters Staff, Reuters.com
Image: The Ocean Cleanup