Marine Debris Material
Marine debris plastic is a mixture of plastic pollutants that have been collected from the environment, cleaned, sorted by colour and ground into smaller pieces. Exposure to UV, water and salt, to name a few, cause a change in the properties of the plastics. Combined with the fact that it is a mixture of plastic polymers, it also poses a challenge for continual manipulation.
Marine debris is “any persistant, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment.” —UN Environment Program,
The development process of the ocean plastic collection - developing a new material and a process which allows us to buy waste plastic from collection groups and turn it into a number of commercially viable products developed in house at Vert Design Studio. Video by: Thomas Lim, Deng Chiew Chan and Joyeon Kim from University of Sydney.
