53: Nick Doman & Will Pearson of Ocean Bottle - Solving The Ocean Plastics Problem

Nick Doman and Will Pearson are the founders of Ocean Bottles, a tool for individuals to fund collection of ocean plastic bottles. Their product is a part stainless steel and part ocean-bound recycled plastic. Highlights: Collecting ocean bound plastic bottles are just as effective. 22 million kg of plastic goes into ocean each day Creating an IBM blockchain platform of network of plastic collection network Ocean Bottle has a NFC chip to offer retailers new way to interact with consumers Getting support in the product design phase and other partnerships Getting into Catapult accelerator programme Time Stamp: [01:00] How Ocean Bottles work [03:22] No bullshit sustainability [05:00] Working with Plastic Bank [07:45] Plastic collectors with Plastic Bank [10:38] B2B side of Ocean Bottles [13:00] Product design background [14:00] Creating a physical product [17:20] Partnerships [19:00] Working as a team and getting coaching [20:50] Vision in 10 years Useful links: Ocean Bottles (https://theoceanbottle.com/) Go to ImpactHustlers.com (https://www.impacthustlers.com/) Visit FastForward 2030 (http://fastforward2030.com/) and Real Changers (https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Hustlers is hosted by Maiko Schaffrath, connect on Linkedin (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maikoschaffrath/en) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/maikoschaffrath) This podcast is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/)