Featured Partners
These organizations show what plastic solutions look like on the water, in the lab and in communities. Several are award winners in 100 Projects in 100 Countries and have presented at the Environmental Xperience at EarthX in Dallas.
Best Project in Germany, 100 Projects in 100 Countries
One Earth One Ocean
Günther Bonin (founder); Dr. Harald Frank (Project Lead, SeeElefant); Jana Koebel (Project Manager)
German nonprofit that builds its own waste-collecting boats and runs local collection and sorting teams to clear plastic from rivers, harbours and coasts.
Eco warrior: Jana Koebel
Seas & Straws
Jana Koebel, founder; Advisor, Plastic Projects, Rotary Club of Newport Beach
Founded by eco warrior Jana Koebel: a plastic-free living and travel hub, plastic-free consulting for hotels, and on-the-ground recycling projects with One Earth One Ocean in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
Top 10 in the World, 100 Projects in 100 Countries
RiverRecycle
Anssi Mikola (founder and CEO); Marko Kärkkäinen (Director of Corporate Social Responsibility)
Finnish company that installs river cleaning systems on heavily polluted rivers and turns the collected plastic into building boards, creating local jobs.
Rotary initiative
EndPlasticSoup (Rotary)
Gert-Jan van Dommelen (co-founder)
Rotary movement started by Amsterdam clubs in 2018 that mobilizes Rotary, Rotaract and Interact clubs worldwide to end plastic soup by 2050.
Research partner
5 Gyres Institute
Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins (co-founders)
Science-led nonprofit that measured plastic in all five subtropical ocean gyres and uses that research to drive policy and corporate change.