Aug. 5, 2026

How 4ocean Turned Bracelets Into 50 Million Pounds of Ocean Trash Removed

How 4ocean Turned Bracelets Into 50 Million Pounds of Ocean Trash Removed

4ocean has removed more than 50 million pounds of plastic and trash from the world's oceans, rivers, and coastlines. That milestone did not come from a government program or a traditional nonprofit. It came from a for-profit business built around a single idea: every bracelet sold funds the removal of a pound of ocean trash.

In this episode, Andrew breaks down how 4ocean went from one viral video in Bali to a global cleanup operation, why founders Alex Schulze and Andrew Cooper chose a business model over a nonprofit, and how the company built local jobs, recycling infrastructure, and B Corp accountability into its growth. He also digs into the harder questions worth asking about any cleanup business, including the tension between extraction and prevention, the tradeoff of turning recycled ocean plastic into apparel, and why independently audited impact numbers matter more than self reported totals.

Whether you're building a career in ocean conservation, running a sustainability focused business, or just curious how a bracelet company ended up pulling 50 million pounds of trash out of the water, this episode gives you a clear look at what works, what's still unresolved, and what to look for the next time you're deciding where to put your money.

Takeaways:

  • 4ocean was founded in 2017 by Alex Schulze and Andrew Cooper after they saw plastic pollution overwhelming the water while surfing in Bali
  • The company has removed more than 50 million pounds of plastic and trash from oceans, rivers, and coastlines as of February 2026
  • Every product sold ties directly to a measurable outcome, which makes the impact tangible for consumers
  • 4ocean is a certified B Corp that hires and pays local workers in the regions where it operates, including Bali and Haiti
  • The company is launching an Impact Dashboard in 2026 to give corporate partners traceable, verifiable insight into their funded impact
  • Extraction models like 4ocean's remove existing trash, but prevention policies are still needed to stop plastic from entering waterways in the first place
  • When evaluating any cleanup organization, look for independently audited impact numbers rather than self reported totals

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Imagine you're a surfer and you're
sitting along the beach in Bali,

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Indonesia, one of the, probably
the primo hotspots for surfing.

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I'm not a surfer, but I've
heard a lot of great things.

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I'm a diver, and I've heard
that's a great place as well.

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But then you start to notice that
while you're in the water, there's

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a crap ton of garbage and plastic
floating around in the water.

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If you're a diver underwater, you'll also
find that just kind of floating around.

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It takes away the beauty of surfing or
even diving underwater of all the reefs

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and all the beauty that you see while
you're sitting on your board waiting for

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the next wave or chatting with a friend
who's on a board as well as you're about

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to, you know, take turns riding a wave.

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Then you decide what
could we do to help this?

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A lot of people are like, "I
wonder if somebody's cleaning this

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up." And let's be honest, a lot of
governments aren't cleaning up a lot

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of this plastic that's coming in.

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We don't know who's
responsible for this plastic.

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It could be, anywhere from around the
world where this plastic is coming from.

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They've been traced to go from
Canada all the way to Asia and

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vice versa, and everywhere.

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And it really just depends
on where the currents go.

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We heard of the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch, and you hear like the five gyres

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and the plastic floats in these five
gyres, and they kinda congregate there.

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But it still washes up on
shore, and somebody's gotta

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clean it up at some point.

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In comes the 4Ocean founders,
Alex Schulze and Andrew Cooper.

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In 2017, they founded 4Oceans and have
now surpassed 50 million pounds of plastic

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and trash removed from oceans, rivers,
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That is a huge amount of plastic that's
done, starting off from one video

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that went viral, and selling bracelets,
and eventually apparel, and using

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corporate sponsorships and then some
grants and donations, eventually, to

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pick up 50 million pounds of plastic.

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And that is an insane amount.

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That is wonderful.

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I remember a couple years
ago, I interviewed Alex

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Schulze, who was phenomenal.

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He was fantastic.

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I will link to the show notes.

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But today on the podcast, we're gonna
be talking about why it's so important

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that 4Oceans exists as a business, and
what they've been able to accomplish

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in that business to show you that it is
possible to turn something as gross, I

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guess, as picking up ocean plastic from
the water, to make it into a profitable

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business that does a good thing.

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And you have this social enterprise
and B Corp that has really been able

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to build a great model and show people
what you can actually do, and either

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replicate that model with plastic or
something else where you can do some good

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for the ocean and good for the planet.

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So we're gonna talk about that on
today's episode of the How to Protect

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the Ocean podcast, where we talk about
ocean news and fun things that happen

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in the ocean, and some not so fun
things that happen to the ocean, and

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the people who are finding solutions
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Okay, let's talk 4Ocean.

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So Andrew Schulz now is the sole
owner and CEO of the business.

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Like I said, he surpassed 50 million
pounds of plastic as of February 20th,

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2026, and basically, him and his
original founders basically showed

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how you can create a for-profit
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the ocean by picking up plastic.

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And this is not like where
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the ocean by 2030 or by 2050.

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All he's doing is having one simple thing.

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He's like, "For every bracelet
you buy, we're gonna pick up one

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pound of trash, or five pounds of
trash depending on the product line

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that you buy and time of year."

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And so by being able to tying something
tangible with each product makes it

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really worthwhile, and I know a number
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Burlington, Ontario, who have been able
to purchase bracelets and have been

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proud to show me, a marine biologist,
to be like, "Hey, look what I'm doing.

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I'm helping protect the ocean just by
buying a bracelet." It democratizes

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cleaning up plastic in the ocean,
just like 4Oceans is doing by saying,

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"Hey, I bought a bracelet just to
make sure that we pick up one pound

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of plastic, and I'll buy more.

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I bought some for the kids, I bought
some for my wife, I bought whatever."

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That is a huge thing.

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That makes people feel like they're a
part of something even though they're

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not actually doing the action, and I
think that's a really important aspect.

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And 4Oceans is not just like a
public benefit corporation, a

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certified B Corp. That's huge.

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That's great that they are.

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But what they are is they come in and
they, say like they have a headquarters in

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Florida, but they have an office in Bali.

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And what they do is they don't just
hire Americans to work there, they hire

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people from Bali, people who are going
to benefit from not only taking out the

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plastic, 'cause they're gonna have to
do it, that office is gonna have to do

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it, but also being paid livable wages
so that they can continue to do that and

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they don't have to look for another job.

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It's creating a business that can have
their employees contribute to the economy

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by buying things and taking care of
their family and all that kind of stuff.

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Plus, they put in infrastructure for
recycling plants and everything so to

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divvy up and separate out the garbage
from the recycling and what they can

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use to build the bracelets as well as
any of the other apparel that they have.

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And it's great.

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And so they have this infrastructure
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and all that kind of stuff,
and I think it's really great.

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They do it in Haiti as well.

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They have other places around the
world that they work, and they're

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working to essentially build up this
infrastructure to pick up trash.

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And I think that's wonderful.

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And just like the story at the beginning
of this episode, the founders were

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looking at beaches in Bali in 2015.

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They noticed that while they were
surfing is, there was a lot of plastic

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in there, and they said, "You know what?

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Can we do it in a business and not just
a nonprofit?" ' Cause the thing is,

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like when you have like traditional
nonprofit, the grant funding

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cleanup models struggle to sustain
year-round daily operational funding.

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It's very difficult to do that.

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It's very difficult to be able to
sustain those operations at the

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level that you need to do and be
able to fulfill what you want to do.

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In this case, it's cleaning up
coastlines and rivers and the ocean.

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So being able to have a for-profit
business, being able to sell goods to

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pick up other things that are in the
ocean, like plastics, it's amazing.

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And if you go on their social media
site, you'll see videos of them going to

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different places in Indonesia, like in
Bali or, around the US or in India and

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other places around the world where rivers
are just congested with floating plastic.

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Sometimes they're big pieces, sometimes
they're little pieces, and you actually

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watch them complete, so you get that
social proof that they're actually

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doing this work And you're actually
looking at them taking a river that's

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completely congested with plastic
pollution, and they clean it all

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up, and they show like how it goes
in like within a certain time frame.

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So they kind of fast-forward everything,
and you get to watch them clean it all

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up, and by the end it's all clean.

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Now, that could fill up again because
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This shows that you can clean up a
beach, that you can clean up a river,

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you can clean up a coastline, but you
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And that's where it partners with
other organizations to work on policies

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to ensure that waste management is
done properly, not only in the US

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and in Canada, but also around the
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'Cause there's a reason why they
wanna continue to do this business.

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They wanted to create is like, is trying
to purchase like a measurable, verifiable

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outcome, like a specific weight of plastic
removed for everything that's bought.

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It gives consumers something to
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Now, some of the interesting things that
happened, like it took 18 months to reach

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the first million pounds removed, and the
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million pounds per year because it's been
able to grow and work in different places.

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And the model has scaled to
12-plus cleanup locations

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across the US, Guatemala,
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So that's huge to see how
these areas are expanding.

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And when they expand, they have offices
in these areas, so it's not just like

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they're coming in, taking it out once and
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This is a constant thing that's happening.

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And now, like in 2026, 4Ocean is
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that's supposed to give corporate
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insight into their funded impact.

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So an example of the transparency
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on cleanup as a business model.

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It's not just to say, "Hey,
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trash." It's easy to say that.

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To do that is harder.

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But it's easy to say, "I can…
I'll clean up a pound of trash.

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Sure, no problem. I'll just go
in my neighborhood, pick it up."

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But to be able to film it, to be able
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it happening, that's a huge thing.

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And look, let's be honest, like
there's no government model or

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mandate that's driving this model.

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It exists because consumer demand
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partnerships, which raise a fair
question around the limits of reliant

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on purchasing power rather than
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Here's the thing.

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The bracelets fund it and, apparel
fund it, but , I guess, the downside

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of it, is that they're recycling
materials to make the apparel, but

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then the apparel will eventually go
into the garbage, and then will it be

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contributing to more ocean pollution?

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But at least we're delaying it
for a little bit, so there's

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still a problem with that.

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But even like, companies like Patagonia
recognize that selling apparel causes

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more waste, even if they're recycling it.

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And so there is that pushback when
I speak to people about these types

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of companies, and be like, "Well,
yeah, but they're just delaying the

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inevitable of this stuff coming in."

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But we need to reuse a
lot of this material.

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And to be able to reuse it and sell it
where there's something good coming out of

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it, I think is worthwhile in this regard.

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And I would love to hear your thoughts
on this, because it's important that we

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clean stuff up, but if it's putting it
in bothers you, I completely understand,

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but I would love to hear your thoughts
on that and why that's happening.

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Now, if you wanna participate in this, you
can go to 4 oceans, you can go to their

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website, you can buy a bracelet or other
apparel, and you can participate in this.

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If you're gonna look for another
cleanup organization, maybe a smaller

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one, just make sure that they publish
independently audited impact numbers,

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so not just the self-reported totals.

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' Cause it's really easy to fudge these
things because there's money involved.

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You wanna make sure that, like, if you're
starting that kind of business, you

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wanna make sure somebody, like, from a
third party independent auditor actually

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looks at doing this kind of stuff,
because I think that's really important.

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And of course, understand the
difference between prevention

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models, and then extraction models.

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before it enters the waterways, stopping
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take away single-use plastic use.

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All those kind of things
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And it's worth knowing which company
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that time frame when you look at that.

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And of course, consider buying a
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But corporate partnerships and
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what really moves the needle, but
individual sponsorships and individual

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purchases really, really help.

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You just have to get to the volume that
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and really get to a point where you
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But, you know, congratulations to Alex
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the people who are working there now,
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and trash removed is huge from the
oceans, and I really respect what

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they've been able to accomplish.

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And the way they've been able to
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think they've used social media and
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as they were growing in popularity.

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And I think that's an important aspect,
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the right time and As someone who works as
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with a lot of startups and businesses,
having a communications plan before you

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move forward, and talk to people and try
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and angel investors is really important.

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And that's what this company did.

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That's how they were able to sell out
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Don't expect to go viral, but definitely
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platform and strategy to be
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So anyway, just a, little shop talk.

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And I've got an announcement next
week where we're gonna be talking

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about this podcast not some changes
you'll hear, but some changes

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for me that have benefited me.

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So, we're gonna hear more
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So stay tuned, follow
if you can, if you want.

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Please do follow so you don't
miss next week's episodes.

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We got one more episode before the
interview with Alexander Mangione

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talking about EV motors on boats.

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So it's gonna be exciting.

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But stay tuned for tomorrow,
because tomorrow we're gonna be

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talking about how living wages
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So that's gonna be a lot of fun
to talk about that, something

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that's very dear to my heart.

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So yeah, stay tuned.

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Thank you so much for joining
me on today's episode.

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If you wanna support us, go
to speakupforblue.com/patreon.

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You've been listening to the How
to Protect the Ocean podcast.

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I'm your host, Andrew Lewin.

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Have a great day.

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We'll talk to you next time,
and happy conservation.