How a Low-Cost Plastic Recycling Setup Found Its Way Up the Gambia River
Looking for a low-cost plastic recycling setup that’s easy to start, simple to teach, and adaptable to local communities? Here’s how one of our recycling fleet members launched a micro-workspace in The Gambia—right from their sailboat.
Community Plastic Recycling: Setting Up Re-Creativa in Chiapas, Mexico
In Chiapas, Mexico, In Mocean has partnered with Finca Hamburgo in March 2024 to launch Re-Creativa, a community plastic recycling workspace. Through workshops and hands-on training, locals are transforming plastic waste into beautiful, functional products—creating both environmental impact and economic opportunity. This collaborative project is paving the way for sustainable waste management in the region, inspiring a movement of creativity, self-sufficiency, and positive change.
Inspiring Change Through Educational Recycling Workshops in Belize and Guatemala
In May 2023, In Mocean had the privilege of hosting educational recycling workshops in Belize City and Guatemala City in collaboration with the German Embassy in Guatemala. These workshops were part of the “EU & You” Event in Belize and the “Festival Cultural Paseo de la Sexta” in Guatemala. Here’s how we turned these events into opportunities to educate, inspire, and enable individuals to rethink their relationship with plastic waste.
Building a Community Recycling Workspace in Costa Rica
Four weeks to build a community recycling workspace in the middle of the jungle on the Osa Peninsula? Well, let’s get IN MOCEAN!
How recycling ocean plastic and turtle conservation fit together
It is 2.30am in the morning and the volunteers are coming back from their night patrol. They walked five kilometers along the wide beach of Rio Oro to look for fresh turtle nests and hatchlings.