"uses 20% ocean-bound-plastic"
Yep someone is literally standing next to a river with a net catching chip bag wrappers and drink bottles and sending them back to the computer factory.
Yep someone is literally standing next to a river with a net catching chip bag wrappers and drink bottles and sending them back to the computer factory.
- 20% of the plastic in the entire device was recycled?
- 20% of the plastic in the box (as the context implies) was recycled?
- 20% of the recycled plastic was ocean-bound and the device is all or mostly recycled plastic?
- Is it some sort of 20% plastic-grade and the plastic was all ocean-bound?
- Did they capture ocean-bound plastic somewhere, used 20% for these boxes, and released the other 80% back into the ocean?
- Did they mean specifically "Ocean Bound Plastic" as a specific term (OBP) and not "ocean-bound-plastic" as a generic term? In that case, this website explains [0] that it would be 80% of all plastic that would end up in the ocean and that certifiable OBP is not commercially recyclable [1]. So... it's not OBP by definition then as OBP excludes all plastic that can be recycled commercially and this was?
- ???
When I clicked the 'Learn more' link next to it, the figure wasn't in the source page. There doesn't seem to be any source page for this, although a lot of news outlets are quoting it (in different interpretations). It seems like they were trying to greenwash something, though that article is wishy washy anyways.
[0] https://www.obpcert.org/what-is-ocean-bound-plastic-obp/ [1] https://www.obpcert.org/what-are-obp-credits/