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Cleanhub: Neutralising plastic instead of dumping it in the sea
CleanHub helps to protect and preserve the oceans by building an economy where plastic is too valuable to waste.
Last week, ZEIT ONLINE profiled our portfolio company CleanHub. Speaking to co-founders Joel Tasche and Florin Dinga, the article details how their avid surfing kept confronting them with the issue of plastic waste in the ocean. Joel and Florin traveled to Southeast Asia to truly familiarize themselves with the problem, before setting out to offer their solution by founding CleanHub.
"Plastic was just everywhere. You couldn't miss it anymore"
"Plastic was just everywhere. You couldn't miss it anymore," Joel says. "On those beaches, we realized how real the plastic problem is on our planet."
CleanHub helps to protect and preserve the oceans by building an economy where plastic is too valuable to waste. In a simple 1+1 principle, companies can finance the collection of low-value plastic with every product they sell. All collection partners use its app to deliver full transparency of recovered volumes.
Read the full article on ZEIT Online
