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We’ve all seen images all over the internet and news of turtles stuck in plastic rings, fish’s stomachs lined with trash, and dolphins caught in fishing lines. Our oceans are littered with trash, with some 8 million metric tons of plastic ending up in the ocean every year. These large sums of garbage greatly affect the marine life and ocean currents.
Pokonobe Associates, the maker of the famous Jenga game, has been participating in the cleanup. They discovered that commercial plastic fishing nets provide ideal material for making Jenga’s stackable blocks. By creating a means to recycle fishing nets in toys, the company hopes to educate its consumers about bringing an end to ocean pollution.
The new game Jenga Ocean, created by the original Jenga designers Paul Eveloff and Robert Grebler, looks to highlight the importance of ocean cleanup. Bureo is also teaming up with Jenga Ocean in the recycling arena. Its skateboards, glasses and other products are made with recycled nets. The International Ocean Film Festival released a film called Net Positiva, showing how sporting and gaming companies can have a large influence on providing a vehicle for reusing plastics.
In recent years, a number of other groups have taken the human initiative to clean up our oceans. One of the groups, The Plastic Bank, provides a living wage to individuals in developing countries who are willing to clean up the plastic on their beaches. The trash is then sent to companies that recycle it into products sold all around the world.
The Plastic Bank, Pokonobe, Bureau, and the International Ocean Film Festival hope to inspire other companies to look for ways to recycle the ocean’s reusable plastic and promoting the importance of stopping marine pollution.
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