Prevented Ocean Plastic has stated its intention to open 25 high-volume collection centres across various global regions by 2025, with which it will gather and recycle ‘ocean-bound’ plastic waste into its ‘fully traceable’ plastic material.
The collection centres are set to be built on coastlines that, according to Prevented Ocean Plastic, have historically lacked the appropriate recycling infrastructure to deal with plastic waste; this includes locations in Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Mediterranean.
Twenty of these centres will be high-capacity collection centres expected to process 100 tonnes of discarded plastic waste every month. Five will be larger ‘aggregation centres’ aiming to process 500 tonnes per month. In total, their processes hope to collect 54,000 tonnes of plastic waste every year.
