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Our OceanNICE8 million tons of Plastic Waste
find its way into the ocean every year.
Our OceanWe need to ACT NOW!
Together we can make the change.
What we focus on?
Our team focuses on setting up a recycling system, through beach clean up operations and art programs in the Pacific and Caribbean coast of Colombia.
Change our habits
Enviromental education
THINK REUSABLE: By promoting the use of reusable utensils and saying good bye to the disposable plastic culture. Our comfortable and Quick life style is destroying or Ocean Habitats. Its time to think reusable and have some class by not destroying the planet any more. #INFINITYKIT
Reduce impact
Beach and rivers cleanups
After school activities with the local kids and volunteers; we use sacks, buckets, and bins to collect, classify, and wash the material found on the beach. We send the clean and washed material to recycling facilities in Buenaventura with the help of the Colombian Army.
Recycling
Find new uses
The communities of the Pacific coast of Colombia, have been burning and burying their trash for years. We are working on installing a series of recycling stations made out of 100% recycled plastic.
How we work?
Permaculture Program INFINITY KIT
One week environmental education and resilience oriented program with presentations, videos, examples and artistic activities about global issues on plastic pollution and alternatives to apply locally.
Recycling stations
The communities of the pacific coast of Colombia, have been burning and burying their trash for years. We are working on installing a series of recycling stations made out of 100% recycled plastic.
Precious Plastic Machine
The plastic will be stored in a facility where we will have 4 slow scale machine, to transform the plastic into useful objects that can provide an income for the community.
Artist residency
If you are an Artist and want to create an art piece with beach plastic, to help us raise awareness and raise funds for our recycling system please get in touch! We invite you to the Pacific coast of Colombia, and help us keep the beach clean through Art.
Beach Clean up Operations.
After school activities with the local kids and volunteers. We use sacks, buckets, and bins,to collect, classify, and wash the material found on the beach…
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Data
collection
All though our beach clean up activities are mostly are extracurricular activities of #Mapare collect with the local children, we do organize massive collaboration clean up operations in partnership with organizations like Ocean Conservancy and 4Ocean.
INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEAN UP DAY WITH OCEAN CONSERVANCY SEPT 2016.
- Place: Colombia - Juanchaco, Ladrilleros and La Barra.
- Date: 17-09-2016.
Our first collaboration with Ocean Conservancy was in sept 2016. This year our first permaculture action week program was develop, synchronized with the international coastal clean up day of Ocean Consevancy…
Total trash collected 8000 Kgs (100%)
INERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEAN UP DAY WITH OCEAN CONSERVANCY 2017.
- Place: Colombia - Juanchaco, Ladrilleros and La Barra.
- Date: 18-09-2017.
For this international coastal clean up day, over 100 national and international volunteers gathered in the beach of Juanchaco to collect over 2 tons of trash…
4OCEAN BEACH CLEAN UP DAY MAY 2018.
- Place: Colombia - Juanchaco, Ladrilleros and La Barra
- Date: 19-05-2018
4Ocean is a company dedicated to do beach clean ups in Florida, Bali, Haiti, and recently joined our efforts in Colombia; together with FoKus Green sustainable fashion company from Medellin and Amigos del Mar foundation from Cartagena, we organized an weekend clean up in collaboration with 4Ocean.
Plastic Waste 797.51 Kgs (46%)
Glass Waste 442.72 Kgs (26%)
Biodiversity Conservation
Te presentamos a una de las organizaciones más admirables de Colombia, nuestros amigos de la Fundación Biopersity Conservation Colombia.
Inicia el proyecto piloto LOS GUARDA PLAYAS junto a RECON
Este proyecto se trata de darle la oportunidad a 6 miembros de la comunidad para que por 5 meses ellos recolecten, clasifiquen, empaquen, pesen, marquen y documenten los materiales reciclables que llegan a las playas
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