Five Years Of Progress Recycling Ocean-Bound Plastics
Dell News, Monday, June 5,2023
June marks the five-year milestone of NextWave Plastics, Dell's cross-industry collaboration to improve the health of our oceans.
Healthy oceans and technology solutions may not, at first glance, seem closely connected, but oceans are critical to our survival. With 71% of the earth covered by water, oceans help to regulate our climate, provide food and generate most of the oxygen in our atmosphere, and we rely on oceans to keep our global economy afloat. Regardless of industry or sector, we need oceans for our survival.
Within the last decade, at Dell Technologies, we became increasingly aware of the problem of plastics in our global oceans and waterways. By 2050, the ocean is expected to contain more plastic than fish (by weight), and it is estimated there are more than 86 million metric tons of plastic in our oceans.