Doing Good

With Lastu products you have been helping the Earth since 2011. First we started tree planting in Zambia (2011-2015). Then we donated 5% of our sales to WWF (2016-2017). Now we are donating 5% of our sales to The Ocean Cleanup project.

Just because we care.

The Ocean Cleanup develops advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic. A full-scale deployment of our systems is estimated to clean up 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years.

A SIMPLE IDEA TURNED INTO A MOONSHOT PROJECT

The Ocean Cleanup is designing and developing the first feasible method to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean. A significant percentage of this plastic drifts into large systems of circulating ocean currents, also known as gyres. Once trapped in a gyre, the plastic will break down into microplastics and become increasingly easier to mistake for food by sea life.
Perseguirlo con barcos y redes sería costoso, llevaría mucho tiempo, requeriría mucha mano de obra y provocaría grandes cantidades de emisiones de carbono y captura incidental. Por eso The Ocean Cleanup está desarrollando un sistema pasivo, que se mueve con las corrientes, al igual que el plástico, para atraparlo. El sistema pasivo de The Ocean Cleanup está compuesto por un flotador con una pantalla sólida debajo, que concentra los desechos y los lleva a un sistema de recolección. El sistema se ralentiza mediante un ancla de deriva suspendida a una profundidad aproximada de 600 metros, haciendo que el sistema se mueva más lento que el plástico y, por lo tanto, lo atrape.

"FOR SOCIETY TO PROGRESS, WE SHOULD NOT ONLY MOVE FORWARD BUT ALSO CLEAN UP AFTER OURSELVES."

- BOYAN SLAT, CEO & FOUNDER

By deploying a fleet of systems, The Ocean Cleanup has estimated to be able to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 5 years’ time. The concentrated plastic will be brought back to shore for recycling and sold to B2C companies. The revenue gained will help fund the cleanup expansion to the other four ocean gyres.
In preparation for full-scale deployment, The Ocean Cleanup organized several expeditions to map the plastic pollution problem in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to an unprecedented degree of detail. The team simultaneously advanced its design through a series of scale model tests, including prototypes deployed in the North Sea 2016 and 2017. System trials off the American west coast will start early 2018 and the first cleanup system deployment in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is scheduled to take place mid-2018.