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buoy Corporation
Japan's seas are dirty Japan is an island nation with many tourist spots where you can see beautiful oceans and coastlines, and we have lived off the blessings of the sea since ancient times. However, the ocean is currently facing a problem. It's the marine debris problem. Currently, huge amounts of marine litter are washed ashore in Japan from China, Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia by the main ocean currents in the area. In addition, due to the influence of the westerly winds blowing from the northwest, it is said that a lot of litter washes ashore especially in the Kyushu region and on the Japan Sea coast, and when you look at the breakdown of the litter, the majority is plastic products, mainly fishing gear. What would happen if the marine plastic waste that washed up on Japan's shores today was left unpicked? Any trash that is not collected will be washed back into the ocean by wind and waves, travelling on ocean currents until it ends up forming a garbage dump near the American continent. The impact of being washed up on the shore and exposure to ultraviolet light will cause it to degrade over time and break into small fragments. Plastics that are less than 5 millimeters in size are called microplastics, and when they get this small, not only are they difficult to collect, but they also increase the risk of being accidentally ingested by birds and marine life. And it is clear that plastic, which does not disappear even after it becomes smaller but continues to remain in the natural world, causes great damage to ecosystems. The problem of marine litter is not a problem that only certain countries face, but a problem that the entire world must work towards solving. Why did you decide to make products from marine plastic waste? The buoy brand was born about five years ago by Techno Lab, a plastic manufacturer based in Yokohama. Plastic has become a part of our daily lives and has made many impossible things possible, but at the same time, its production is increasing year by year, and the large amounts of plastic that have ended up in the ocean have become a global issue. Plastic is produced on the premise of mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal, and as the term "disposable plastic" suggests, there is no resistance to throwing it away because it is easy and cheap to obtain. It is this consumer behavior that is creating the current problems. Techno Lab has manufactured a lot of plastics with the desire to make the world a better place and to be useful to people.