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OceanGuard Sunglasses: From Ocean Trash to Ocean Treasure

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Unbreakable recycled sunglasses with top-quality lenses and lifetime warranty. Each pair captures 25 lb of ocean plastic at the source.
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For the last two years, we’ve been placing river barriers that stop trash before it enters our oceans, powered by the sales of our previous campaigns and inspired by the work of Sungai Watch in Bali.

After 2 years of hard work, we’re finally completing the circle by transforming the plastic we collect from our barriers into OceanGuard Sunglasses, to fund more barriers.

Instead of polluting our planet, the more OceanGuard Sunglasses you back, the more trash we can capture before it enters our oceans.

We couldn’t find any manufacturer in the world to turn our river barriers plastic into sunglasses. But that didn’t stop us. We hired some of the best designers on the planet, imported top-notch machines from England and created our own Plastic Innovation Center in Bali to produce the sunglasses ourselves.

We combine the recovered plastic from our river barriers with other plastic waste from Bali and Java.

For this collection, we worked with the esteemed Italian sunglasses designer Alessandro De Monte. With an impressive portfolio boasting renowned brands such as Cartier, Gucci, Diesel, North Face, and Puma, De Monte brings his unparalleled 20 years of expertise to create an exceptional line of sunglasses for you.

Drawing inspiration from iconic styles, we have meticulously tailored and upgraded each design to cater to the diverse needs and unique face shapes of our valued backers.

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Inspired by the ocean and the sea creatures you are helping save by backing this campaign.

Crafted from recycled polypropylene, our sunglasses are incredibly resilient. Polypropylene is a material that combines excellent flexibility with high tensile strength.

We are revolutionizing eyewear not only through sustainability but also with nano-science. Our new NanoFlex™ technology infuses an advanced impact modifier into our polypropylene formula, for extra strength and durability. It ensures exceptional impact resistance and flexibility, allowing us to create sunglasses that can bend and flex without breaking.

We use top quality hinges made in Germany, and we’ve given a durability boost to the design of our previous Mangrove Sunglasses from our last Kickstarter campaign. We thickened the hinges sockets to add three times more strength. Embrace this new robust design with an extra dose of toughness.

Our sunglasses are not only durable and flexible, but also very lightweight, and designed to fit like a dream. This makes our frames  so comfortable you’ll forget you’re wearing them. Perfectly balanced to offer the ultimate comfort for hiking, biking, or exploring the world without pain.

Our frames will be handcrafted in our Innovation Center in Bali using the plastic waste that we collect from our river barriers combined with other ocean-bound plastic. Thanks to that process, each pair will have its own unique texture, making your pair the only pair like it in the world. These are not just excellent sustainable sunglasses, they are a work of art.

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