Bureo is a company passionate about sustainability and eco-conscious manufacturing processes, using recycled fishnets to produce plastic items that range from skateboards to boogie boards.
By encouraging local fishermen in Chile to dispose of their old nets in recycling units, Bureo also helps to reduce the amount of discarded fishnets, which make up around 10% of the pollution in our oceans. Karün is an eyewear manufacturer and its goal is to design high quality products that are inspired by nature and enable the user to be more in tune with the environment.
The two brands have joined forces to make three models of sunglasses: Yuco, Newen, and Kayu, all part of the Ocean Collection. All three designs have a classic aesthetic and modern accent, with indented fish net details on the frames, reminding the wearer of the material’s origin. This is also the world’s first and only line of sunglasses made of 100 percent recycled fishing nets.
The sunglasses are made from nets collected by Net Positiva, a Chile-based fishnet collection and recycling program developed and operated by Bureo’s own team
“The majority of the population owns at least one pair of plastic sunglasses, none of which are made in a responsible way,” Bureo’s founders, Ben Kneppers, David Stover and Kevin Ahearn, told the website. “This new collection of sunglasses represents a major step forward in bringing awareness about ocean plastic pollution to the general public.”
The company first made a splash a few years back with their line of sustainable skateboards that’s also made from the same material.
The company added that the manufacturing process of the frames generates roughly 70 percent fewer greenhouse-gas emissions due to an innovative mechanical processing technique that’s free of chemicals and uses minimal water to melt the nets into pellets.
The collection became the second most successful campaign of eyewear in the financing platform for creative projects, Kickstarter, raising US$ 180,000, equivalent to 1,800 sunglasses sold in 30 days and won the support of 1,300 people from 20 different countries.
According to ecowatch.com; usa.karuneyewear.com; gessato.com. Source of photo: internet
