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Feasibility study and implementation concept for investors completed:

Munich Garching / Kiel, May 22, 2019 – On behalf of One Earth – One Ocean e.V. (OEOO), a team of experts including ship designers, plant engineers, environmental engineers, and project developers has developed over the past ten months an implementation concept for the elimination of coastal marine pollution caused by plastic waste and demonstrated its technical, economic, and legal feasibility. The conception phase was financially supported by the nonprofit Röchling Foundation. The “Marine Litter Cleanup” for the collection of plastic waste from the oceans is the central project of the nonprofit organization One Earth – One Ocean e.V. (OEOO). The search for investors thus begins, looking for economic participants in the construction of the first pilot system “SeeElefant”, required to tackle the problem of plastic waste actively and pragmatically.

It is not necessary to emphasize that plastic waste in the worldwide waters is one of the most serious environmental problems of our global society. It is estimated that more than 140 million tons are already found in the world’s oceans and that at least 10-15 million tons are added every year. Forecasts predict that by 2025 the volume of marine litter will have doubled. The present failure of The Ocean Cleanup offshore cleaning concept of the Dutchman Boyan Slat shows once again that practicable solutions for the removal of marine plastic waste are still lacking.

For more than eight years the environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean e.V. (OEOO) gathers operation experience with its “Marine Litter Cleanup“. It is reflected in the comprehensive research and concept study now presented. The included business plan indicates the development of significant parameters over a 10-year period. The results of this study confirm the technical, economic, and legal feasibility of the pilot system “SeeElefant”. This pilot system for use in river estuaries and coastal areas is a central building block in Günther Bonin’s OEOO concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup”.

The topic of plastic waste in the oceans is omnipresent today, yet viable concepts that can be implemented to quickly combat marine plastic waste are still missing. “Utopias don’t help us reach our goal” explains Günther Bonin, founder of the organization One Earth – One Ocean e.V., who was recently honored by Gruner & Jahr for his work. “Our concept is a well thought-out and pragmatic approach that has already been partially tested and continuously optimized. Now we want to take the next big step”.

Marine Litter Cleanup

The concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup” foresees a fleet of special workboats with conveying equipment required to collect plastic waste from the sea. These so-called “SeeKuh” – a first SeeKuh has been in use since 2017, a second one is currently being built – bring the collected plastic waste to the “SeeElefant”.

The “SeeElefant” is a converted multi-purpose ship with on-board facilities for sorting, crushing, processing, and pressing of marine plastic waste. The sorted sea plastic will be pressed on board into bales of mono-material plastic and later recycled. Collected composite material and wood can be thermally recycled, thus providing the energy for plant operation. In a few years – with the availability of depolymerization facilities suitable for industrial use – plastic will be converted into oil directly on board. The pilot system aims to achieve a processing capacity of about 20 t/day. In further expansion stages, this system will be developed for commercial operators with a capacity of up to 200 t/day.

Marine plastic is thus not garbage but a valuable material. The resulting bales are sorted and consist of e.g. polyethylene, polypropylene, or PET marine plastic. They will be sold and thus returned to the recycling process.

“Our primary economic goal is to fully cover the costs of the pilot system”, says project manager Dr. Harald Frank, “but it is also possible to exceed the break-even point by increasing the volumes of collected plastic waste or marketable bales of secondary raw material to 40 tons per day in the medium term”.

The comprehensive business plan included in the feasibility study shows the development of all significant parameters over a 10-year period. The investment costs for the pilot system can be limited to approx. EUR 11.2 million by using a secondhand multi-purpose ship as SeeElefant, market-proven machinery for recycling, and the proven waste collection technology the catamaran SeeKuh is equipped with.

“Driven by the rapidly growing quantities of marine plastic waste, we at One Earth – One Ocean were working on technical solutions for water protection since 2011”, explains Günther Bonin, founder and CEO of the award-winning environmental organization. “With the completion and publication of the feasibility study titled Pilot System SeeElefant, an important milestone on the road to Marine Litter Cleanup has now been successfully completed. Courageous and potent partners are now required to support our concept and help us to actively tackle the problem of marine plastic waste – at last. Time is short!”.

Search for partners and investors from industry and science begins

Now that verifiable and unbiased facts and figures exist, Günther Bonin and Harald Frank start a targeted search for investors and partners from industry and science in order to execute the ambitious implementation plan over the next 18 months.

The global annual damage caused by marine plastic waste is estimated by the UN at USD 13 billion. Long-term effects and consequential damage to humans, animals, and ecosystems – in particular from microplastics in the food chain – are hereby not even taken into account, as they are largely unexplored and therefore not quantifiable.

The One Earth – One Ocean cleaning concept focuses on primarily on hotspots such as river estuaries and coastal areas, where the pollution concentrations are highest and the plastic waste is still relatively unsplit and floating on the surface, often forming actually a waste carpet. Accessibility, logistics, and the supply of energy required for waste collection are all controllable here. Examples are the estuaries of top polluted rivers such as the Yangtze, Ganges, Brantas, Mekong, or Pasig and the coasts of the megacities Jakarta, Hong Kong, or Rio.

One Earth – One Ocean (OEOO) is sticking to its oil conversion technology for processing maritime PP and PE fractions. In the first step, however, plastics-to-fuel facilities are missing in the pilot system because the technology is not yet ready for industrial use. For OEOO, however, this is not a show stopper, as the maritime PE and PP fractions can be processed into high-quality bales after sorting. The decisive factor for OEOO is rather the prompt start of the clean-up work, i.e. the quickly as possible removal of the plastic waste from the sea.

“Our vision of a global maritime waste disposal moves closer”, said Günther Bonin during the presentation of the feasibility study. At the same time, he is certain that in just a few years the innovative plastics-to-fuel technology will be available, significantly increasing the economic attractiveness of “Marine Litter Cleanup”.

An animation of the OEOO “Marine Litter Cleanup” and the OEOO SeeElefant can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KbxZDiMZw4 .

One Earth – One Ocean e. V.(OEOO)

The environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean (OEOO) based in Munich/Garching and Kiel has the goal of freeing waters of the plastic waste, oil, and other pollutants. Already today the pollution of the seas with plastic waste reaches alarming proportions. If we do not take countermeasures, the weight of plastic waste will exceed that of fish by 2050, according to a UN study.

OEOO has therefore been working since 2011 on the implementation and testing of its pilot concept for “Marine Litter Cleanup”. OEOO founder Günther Bonin is the former owner of a successful IT company and a passionate sailor since his youth. His concept is staggered: In a first step, the plastic waste is collected by special waste collection ships on waterways. Sorting and bundling of the waste takes place on board of a converted multi-purpose ship. Recycling is carried out by disposers on land. Sorted recyclable plastics are pressed into bales of mono plastic materials. Plastic waste will be converted to energy and oil in the future. About 800 liters of oil can be recovered from one ton of plastic.

What initially sounded like the utopia of an idealist is now turning reality, taking on concrete forms. Collection ships of various sizes are now in operation in the Baltic Sea, Hong Kong, and Cambodia. A feasibility study for the SeeElefant pilot system was presented in the spring of 2019 and will be implemented by 2021. Well-known companies and private individuals, including Röchling Stiftung GmbH, Deutsche Telekom AG, and Daimler AG, support OEOO in different ways.

In 2013, OEOO was awarded the renowned GreenTec Award, Europe’s largest environmental and business prize, for its concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup”. In 2016, OEOO was nominated for the German federal award “eco-design”, the highest award for ecological design in Germany. In 2018, OEOO was nominated for the Ocean Tribute Award by Prince Albert II of Monaco, honoring the most innovative and sustainable ideas on marine conservation. In 2019 Günther Bonin received the Special Prize of the Gruner & Jahr Spa Award.

Further information can be found at http://www.oneearth-oneocean.com/en/ or in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Earth-One-Ocean/163573257046660

Röchling Foundation GmbH

The Röchling Foundation is dedicated to Plastics & the Environment. It supports both research projects and civil initiatives that contribute to the responsible use of plastics, towards a sustainable circular recycling economy. The Röchling Foundation is not merely a funding partner but is above all interested in establishing new cross-sector co-operations and networks.

Similarly, the foundation also initiates its own activities that contribute to a holistic understanding and integrated solutions to the global challenge of Plastics & the Environment.

The Röchling Foundation was established 1990 by the Röchling family. The family also owns the Röchling Group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-performance plastics for automotive engineering, industrial applications, and medical technology.

www.roechling-stiftung.de

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Instead of the usual newsletter about the past three months, we this time are offering an annual report of 2018.

Please have a look to this brief overview of our activities over the last 12 months. Have fun reading.

Here you can find the pdf of the annual report.

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Además, 500 miembros del Club Nautique Arenal recibieron un paño grueso y suave donado (patrocinador: marinepool), que evita que el combustible y el aceite entren en el agua cuando se reabastecen los barcos. Este Tankflies es un desarrollo de OEOO y consiste en el galardonado encuadernador de aceite PURE.

Más información se puede encontrar aquí.

de izquierda a derecha: Ferran Muniesa, gerente general de Club Nautique Arenal; Laura Dekker, circunnavegadora más joven del mundo; Günther Bonin de OEOO; Stefan Eberle, CEO de Marine Pool; Iker Martínez, doble campeón olímpico y 5 veces ciclista mundial de España y Kim Andersen, presidente de la asociación internacional de vela World Sailing. En sus manos sostienen el paño grueso y suave del tanque de OEOO.

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Plastic waste is a huge problem worldwide, also in Asia. Studies such as those of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (“Rethinking the Future of Plastics”) show that a substantial part of the plastic waste that reaches the oceans worldwide comes from Asia. This is not about pointing our finger at others. Poor environmental awareness is a problem of all countries of this earth. Instead, solutions for one of the biggest global environmental problems should be identified and the problem should be addressed on the ground.

Like many metropolis around the globe, also Hong Kong with its approximately seven and a half million inhabitants suffers from a huge flood of garbage: more than 9,000 tons of waste come together in Hong Kong – daily. The non-profit environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean eV (OEOO) from Munich, which has been working on implementing its concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup” for six years, has therefore gladly accepted the invitation to Hong Kong to take action on the problem of plastic garbage on the ground to fight. The fully donated special catamaran SEEKUH for collecting plastic waste has a size of about 12 x 10 meters (L x W) and weighs just under eight tons. Because the ship can be dismantled, it can be brought by cargo container for use in Asia or anywhere else in the world where it is needed most.

Of course, one ship can not save the world. Rather, it is about presenting the concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup” to decision makers from politics and the local economy. The aim of the project is to clean the oceans and inland waters of plastic garbage with garbage collecting vessels of different sizes specially developed by OEOO. In a first step, the visible plastic waste is fished with special catamarans, sorted and crushed. This is then recycled or reconverted into oil. From a ton of pre-sorted plastic garbage you can recover about 800 liters of sulfur-free fuel oil. While waste is still being separated and recycled ashore, OEOO plans to build a self-sufficient energy ship in the next few years – the so-called SEEELEFANT (elephant seal). This converted container ship with a depolymerisation plant on board produces fuel from the plastic waste and can either sell it to neighboring countries or serve as a mobile filling station on the high seas.

Supporters of the project in Hong Kong

The entire campaign in Hong Kong as well as the transport of the SEEKUH to and from Hong Kong is financed by donations. For example, the logistics company Kühne und Nagel and the shipping company Hamburg Süd cover the costs of transport by container ship to Hong Kong. The company Interpac Control GmbH took care of the professional packaging of the SEEKUH in the containers free of charge. Li & Fung supports us in the on-site handling. At this point to all sponsors a big thank you!

On February 1, 2018, we will hold a reception at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum where people who play an active role in environmental issues including leaders in the commercial and environmental sectors in Hong Kong will be gathered together. In this context, Günther Bonin will present the work of OEOO and promote his concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup”. The SEEKUH will anchor directly at the pier of the museum and can be visited.

“With the cleanup operation in Hong Kong, One Earth – One Ocean e.V. shows that we are not leaving it with UN Marine Conference intentions, but that we are globally active in marine littering,” said Günther Bonin, founder and entrepreneur of the association. “We are all the more pleased about the lively interest and support in Hong Kong. Our concept of “Marine Litter Cleanup” is sustainable, globally scalable, energy-oriented, applicable by humans for humans and already applicable today. We hope that the local economy picks up on our ideas and applies them to their region, because plastic waste is ultimately also a raw material with which to earn money. But as long as that has not arrived in people’s minds, we will continue to dump millions of tons of plastic into the environment each year. ”

Headquartered in Hong Kong, Li & Fung is the world’s leading supply chain solutions partner for consumer brands and retailers. The company provides design, development, sourcing and logistics for major retailers and brands, specializing in managing supply chains of high-volume, time-sensitive goods with over 21,000 people in around 250 offices across 40 economies. CD, the company’s European body care brand, is the sponsor of One Earth – One Ocean’s tour to Hong Kong.

Sustainability is integral to Li & Fung’s business, with a focus on creating positive societal and environmental impact to improve communities across our network. The Li & Fung Foundation is the corporate foundation of Li & Fung, harnessing our strengths, global networks, knowledge and people, to make scalable, sustainable positive impact. We are an organization that thrives on change, and embraces innovation and a forward-thinking mindset.  We are looking at solutions that can be scaled globally, drawing upon different perspectives and diverse experiences. We want to work with big thinkers, share open-source ideas and convene the biggest hearts and minds to create scalable, sustainable change. In our interconnected world, we know that the future lies in the hands of us all.

One Earth – One Ocean e. V.

The environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean based in Munich-Garching aims to free waters from plastic waste, but also oil and pollutants. On the world’s oceans already giant plastic garbage floats, the largest of which in the Pacific is as big as Central Europe, i. such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Luxembourg, Hungary and the Czech Republic. If pollution continues to advance at the current rate, the oceans will be completely overgrown in a few years’ time.

Founder of One Earth – One Ocean (OEOO) is Günther Bonin, former owner of an IT company and avid sailor. His vision of “Marine LItter Cleanup” is divided into several stages: In a first step, the plastic waste is collected, sorted and shredded on the seas using specially developed ships. Separation and recycling of the waste takes place ashore. At a later stage, the collected plastic is to be reconverted directly into oil on board tankers. From a ton of plastic can recover about 800 liters of oil. Since 2015, Bonin has redesigned its IT company into a water purification company to provide administrative support to the association.

What sounds like the utopia of an idealist now takes concrete forms. More than 100 companies and private individuals, including the Röchling Foundation and Deutsche Telekom AG, support the project in different ways. Thomas Hahn, who co-designed the winning ship of the America’s Cup at BMW Oracle, also supports OEOO in the development of garbage collecting ships. In the spring of 2018 SEEKUH will be operating in Hong Kong.

In 2013, One Earth – One Ocean e.V. was awarded the prestigious GreenTec Award 2013, Europe’s largest environmental and business award, for its concept of Marine Litter Cleanup. In 2016, it was nominated for the Federal Ecodesign Award, the highest honor for ecological design in Germany. Finally, in 2018, the club was nominated for the Ocean Tribute Award by Prince Albert II of Monaco, who recognizes the most innovative and sustainable marine conservation ideas.

For more information, please visit http://www.oneearth-oneocean.com or the Facebook account at https://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Earth-One-Ocean/163573257046660

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