Updated: 25/04/2021 - 10:09
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A startup in Brazil is producing footwear made entirely from plastic waste in the ocean.
Even when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country hard, the sprouting company kept working towards their goal of collecting 2 million plastic bottles by 2022.
Bernardo Pedroso is the founder and CEO of Ocean Refresh. Growing up in Brazil, his mother was one of the country s first surfers, so he practically spent all his time on the beach.
That beach today is littered all over with plastic. When I started Ocean Refresh, it wasn t about the product. It was never about the product, the product was a result of the hard work we re doing to create something with the rubbish that s already there, he says.