AUSTRALIAN waterway cleaning charity Ocean Crusaders has launched its Crab Pot Float Fundraiser – where plastic bottle caps will be turned into hard plastic floats.
Ocean Crusaders has already removed 100 tonnes of marine debris from Australian waterways this year and is turning its attention to crab pot floats and “ghost” crab pots and nets.
Ocean Crusaders said in a press release: “We need to change our habits and polystyrene needs to go. We also collect thousands of bottle caps so why not kill two birds with one stone.”
Bottle cap collection points, using container exchange locations, have been established from Noosa to Burleigh Heads.
Caps are sorted by volunteers at the Ocean Crusaders facility every Tuesday and Thursday. Caps are granulated which can then be used in an injection moulding machine to produce crab pot floats.
Ocean Crusaders is now at the stage of needing to create the mould for the float which is a hefty $15,000 and needs to sell the first 2,500 floats through its crowd funding campaign to get up and running.
For more information: www.OceanCrusaders.org/Recycling