This exclusive partnership demonstrates Poralu Marine’s development towards the provision of new solutions to environmental challenges.
Poralu Marine and Seabin Pty Ltd , known by the name of The Seabin Project, announce the initial placing on the market of Seabins, innovative, ecological collectors of floating plastic waste, which are intended for harbour areas and private marinas. From 6 November, 500 Seabins are available on pre-sale via the website www.seabinproject.com and the Poralu Marine distribution network.
Peter Ceglinski and Andrew Turton, two Australian surfers, developed this collector which traps all types of floating waste. Their idea “started a craze”, but to bring it to fruition a worldwide exclusivity agreement was concluded between The Seabin Project and the French company, Poralu Marine, in 2016. This partnership between the two companies concerns the development, manufacture and worldwide distribution of the Seabin. It entrusted the entire industrial and commercial dimension of the project to Poralu Marine.
“Poralu Marine, the world leader in aluminium harbour facilities, is producing the Seabins in its factory in Port, Ain (France) after having concluded the various research and development phases linked to the creation of this truly innovative product”, explained Laurent Gasiglia, Managing Director of Poralu Marine. This choice demonstrates a fundamental development for the Poralu Marine group, which is more and more positioned on the provision of new solutions to environmental challenges. “
Poralu Marine is presenting the first commercial version at Metstrade Amsterdam, 14-16 November 2017 – Poralu Marine Stand: 05.506
The first marketable Seabins will be presented at the next Metstrade (Marine Equipment Trade Show), from 14 to 16 November 2017 in Amsterdam.
Furthermore the Seabin V5 Floating Dock has been nominated to compete in the Design Award 2017 in the “Marina equipment, boatyard equipment and boat construction tools and materials” category: www.metstrade.com/innovation/dame-nominees/.
How does the Seabin work?
The Seabin, fixed on a pontoon, is submerged and connected to an electric pump which creates a continuous current to attract floating waste to the collector. The waste is recovered in a bag. Once it is full the waste bag is emptied by maintenance personnel, and then replaced in the Seabin.
The first Seabin collectors are intended to be fixed on floating pontoons. 2018 will see the development of a version for a fixed quay. Eventually, one of the aims is also to produce collectors using the plastic recovered by the Seabins themselves. “In our company we use plastic articles to trap plastic, commented Peter Ceglinski, Manager of Seabin.The Seabins are 100% recyclable and we are currently studying the quantity of recycled materials that can be incorporated into Seabin production. “
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Plastic pollution… an environmental challenge
Data varies depending on continents and the studies conducted, but the figures stated always remain astronomical. According to the estimates, 300,000 million tons of plastic are discarded every year in aquatic environments and more than 5 thousand billion particles of all sizes float in our oceans. It would take between 1 century and 1 millennium for these components to break down. Today there are 1 million marine animals and 200,000 mammals which die every year due to plastic pollution. The microscopic compounds which come from their breakdown are ingested by the marine fauna that arrive on our plates, and so on.
About…
Seabin Pty Ltd
Seabin Pty Ltd, is an Australian company founded by Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, the Research and Development subsidiary – The Seabin Project – of which is based in Palma, Majorca in Spain. The company is an active participant in the protection of the marine environment through the development of innovative technological products (Seabin), educational programmes, and partnerships aimed at promoting the preservation of the aquatic environment.
The Seabin Project
The Seabin Project is a subsidiary of Seabin Pty Ltd, which has the ambition of being a leader in terms of research, design, and development of Seabin technology, in order to reduce the amount of plastic polluting the oceans. To achieve this ambitious objective, the company is also putting in place collaborative programmes with other innovative groups which are active in ocean conservation, educational programmes for the general public and support for initiatives encouraging the recycling of plastic recovered from the sea so that the production of new materials is limited. In a few weeks, during a participative financing campaign launched at the end of 2015 to support the development of the Seabin, The Seabin Project attracted the attention of the entire world. The video presenting the project has been viewed more than 200 million times. The Seabin Project‘s action has be relayed and quoted several hundred thousand times in the media and translated into many languages, showing the public’s interest in this problem. This augers well for the company’s future.