Anglo-Portuguese partnership creates packaging of detergent from plastic collected at sea
The first detergent packaging made from plastic collected of the seas and beaches will be introduced in supermarkets in the United Kingdom at the end of the month. The company responsible for the production of packaging is the Ecover, which manufactures and markets environmentally friendly cleaning products.The aim of Ocean Bottle is alert to the dangers of long-term presence of this material on marine ecosystems, causing the death of fish and birds, threatening the balance of global ecosystems.To produce this new packaging is made from recycled plastic, Ecover has joined efforts with Portugal's Logoplaste, producer of plastic packaging, to combine the debris taken from the ocean with plastic produced from sugarcane. Initially, only 10% of the new plastic packaging material will be removed from the sea, but in the future the Ecover hopes to increase the proportion.When present in a marine environment, plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose, through the combination of the salt water with the Sun. The variable amount of plastic collected from the sea by Ecover means that this material had to be mixed with other recycled plastic to produce a robust material that supports a household cleaning product, referred to in the Guardian."The problem of plastic in the Ocean has a huge range â€" every year at least a million seabirds and 100,000 sharks, turtles, dolphins and whales die due to ingestion of plastic. There is no choice-we simply want to clean plastic for the good of everyone, "says Philip Malmberg, executive director of Ecover.The mark should also launch this year a laundry detergent produced from algae oil, a more sustainable alternative to Palm oil, which is used today in most detergents.Foto: EdinburghGreens/Creative Commons
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