Stop Ocean Pollution: Collection of #tide ocean material® on the island of Koh Sinhai, Thailand

Palinya Chansamout is a fisherman from the island of Sinhai, located off the coast in the Andaman Sea. He's married, has 1 daughter and 2 sons. While the sons are still in school, his daughter is studying nursing in Ranong, Thailand.

His wife works with him: Beside fish they also sell coconuts.

His side job – collecting plastic which gets a second life as #tide ocean material® – has become important for this remote island. Koh Sinhai lacked a waste management and isn't accessible by public transport, so plastic waste that ended up there just stayed on the island.

Thanks to Palinya's effort, this has changed for good. Each time he has collected between 400 and 800 kilos of plastic, he loads his longtailboat, drives one hour across the sea and along mangrove forests until he docks in Ranong – just in front of the entrance of our social enterprise, which was created by the Jan & Oscar Foundation.

This non-profit organisation is offering new sources of income to the underprivileged populations of Ranong province. In collaboration with the J&O Foundation #tide provides a tangible solution to fight plastic pollution in the marine environment. We buy plastic at a fair price, provide employment, training and sometimes housing for those who work at the centre, among them many young Moken or Burmese people.

The ocean plastics are then upcycled into #tide's award-winning ocean material to become useful, durable products. Learn more about #tide: https://www.tide.earth/en/

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• Plastic Pollution