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AOcean Crusaders turning bottle caps into crab pot floats
USTRALIA’S up crab pot floats. on their website to see price with those pesky later be turned into w a t e r w a y The worst part is that where your local drop little polystyrene floats non-structural bricks, cleaning charity the crab pot is probably off point is. that are an environmen- however the priority is
are at it again. lost on the bottom of The waste is then tal nightmare. the crab pot floats for
They never seem to stand still.
the ocean and still fish- ing for crabs.
brought back to one central place by Clean- away, and is picked up and brought back to the facility where there are amazing volunteers who come along every Tuesday and Thursday to sort through the caps.
Ocean Crusaders are also chasing funding to move their facility to a dedicated indoor loca- tion, as at present it is in a backyard, at the same place they have all of their cleaning boats.
now.
And they need your
Having gone through the 100 tonne barrier of marine debris removed from Australian water- ways already in 2020, they have now launched their Crab Pot Float Fundraiser, where they will turn plastic bottle caps into hard plastic floats.
One crab goes in, starves to death, and then another crab goes in to eat that one and so on.
help!
They need to sell
In southeast Queens- land alone, they have access to 750,000 bottle caps a day.
People need to change their habits and poly- styrene needs to go.
The caps are granu- lated to be used in an injection moulding machine to produce a float.
Coloured caps will
On the odd occasion a turtle will head in and then it is game over for the turtle too.
They separate whites (used for floats), metals and other debris.
The machines are simply too loud to keep in a residential area.
For more information about the crowd-funder and to watch the pro- motional video, visit OceanCrusaders.org/ recycling
the first 2500 floats through their crowd- funder.
Yep, you read that right.
Ocean Crusaders also collect thousands of bottle caps, so why not kill two birds with one stone?
The next step is to create the mould for the float, which is a whop- ping $15,000 to make.
If every cap came back, that’s over 2 tonne of plastic that used to go to landfill.
They have set up col- lection points using container exchange lo- cations from Noosa to Burleigh Heads.
Once created, the floats go into produc- tion and compete on
In the clean ups, they commonly find broken
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