ReSea Project is a community-driven solution to remove plastic from oceans and rivers. The certification covers their traceability system for the collection process in Indonesia.
The cleanup solution is community-driven, meaning that people in local communities are employed to recover the plastic polluting oceans and rivers. This contributes to better living conditions for those removing the plastic and their families, and it helps raise awareness to stop plastic pollution at its source.
Authority comment
“The impact of our cleanup is solely dependent on companies funding our mission. Choosing DNV GL and completing the certification is an important milestone for our continuous operations, as it will provide the trust and certainty needed to support us, enabling us to extract plastic at a greater scale.”
“Something that is crucial in the efforts against the ocean plastic crisis”, says Ann Sofie Gade, Head of Business Development at ReSea Project.
Situation worsens during the pandemic
The amount of plastic waste flowing into the oceans is rising and has only gotten worse during the pandemic
The amount of plastic waste flowing into the oceans is rising and only gotten worse during the pandemic with recurrent reliance and consumption of single-use plastic.
Solving the ocean plastic crisis requires significant efforts and solutions to recover the huge amounts already floating out there and prevent more plastic from flowing into oceans and rivers.
Trust and transparency
“The significant ongoing cleanup around the world creates a growing market need to provide trust and transparency in claims.”
“An independent third party like us can verify the origin and traceability of recovered plastic against established requirements in the standard.”
“For ReSea Project, certification of its traceability system assures transparency of its entire plastic collection process,” says Antonio Astone, Global Service Manager Assurance and Supply Chain in DNV GL.
