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E.107 Is This A World We Want To Live In? With Will Pearson Co-Founder of Ocean Bottle
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In my kitchen this week I am joined by Will Pearson the Co-Founder of Ocean Bottle where we have a big discussion about the extent of the ocean's plastic pollution issue, what we are currently doing to reduce the amount of plastic going into our oceans and what more can be done!
Will is interested in combining entrepreneurship with social and environmental impact. He’s appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and was named one of Norway’s Top 10 Leaders under 30 for his work towards sustainable development goals. After his engineering degree, William spent a year working at sea in the Indian Ocean, where he experienced first hand the effects of pollution on the ocean, and decided to pursue a career in environmental impact and business.
Ocean Bottle is a social impact brand first and, reusable bottle brand second. On a mission to prevent 7 billion plastic bottles in weight from entering the ocean by 2025, Ocean Bottle enables companies and individuals to have a global impact on stopping ocean plastic.
Its core product, the world’s most impactful reusable bottle, funds collection of 1000 ocean-bound plastic bottles in weight for every purchase. Ocean Bottle products stop ocean-bound plastic at the largest sources, setting up long-term infrastructure for plastic collection and supporting livelihoods in coastal communities worst affected.
Ocean Bottle has recently launched new ventures based on its impact platform Ocean Co which offers customers full traceability of funding. Ocean Bottle gives over 15% of its revenue to impact and has so far prevented 14,164,500kg of ocean-bound plastic, equivalent to 1 billion plastic bottles from reaching the ocean.
In this episode we discuss the following topics:
- The mission and concept around Ocean Bottle
- The pivotal moment of how Will then started Ocean Bottle
- Just how bad the global plastic pollution issue is
- How did the team start to tackle such a vast global issue
- Plastic as currency
- When the plastic is collected and recycled what happens to it?
- How the recycling system works
- How the UK deals with some of it's rubbish
- What more can we do to make a difference
- What businesses can do
- E-confessions
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This episode was hosted and produced by Georgia Symonds
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