Electrolux's Vacs from the Sea: Made from Plastic Debris Harvested from the Ocean
By Core Jr - Oct 27, 2010
In June of this year, we wrote about Vac from the Sea, an initiative by Electrolux to raise awareness of the huge amount of plastic waste in the oceans by deploying teams to collect some of it and turn it into a series of vacuums. Today they unveiled the series of 5, pictured top. Each vacuum represents one ocean, from left to right: the North Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, and the Baltic Sea.
The chassis are visually quite nice, and though this isn't currently worked out for high volume production, but, according to Electrolux, the "quality and logistics needed for cleaning and sorting ocean plastic makes it difficult to use in mass production." For now, they are planning to auction off one of the vacuum cleaners, using the revenue for continued research into the initiative. Watch a quick video of the process below. More photos of the vacuums, harvesting, and fabrication follow.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the body of the vacuum painted? and isn't painting a process that releases large amounts of voc's into the atmosphere? so we are cleaning up the ocean and polluting the air? wouldn't it just be better to be honest about the recycled material?!Report as spam
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Really nice ! Maybe others companies can follow them and recycle some more plastic. Great idea, great design !!Report as spam
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Great!!!!Report as spam
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That's a great start. You know if someone went and actually vacumed these floating island of plastic in the sea to recycle it, you have something larger then the state of texas to use of plastic!!Report as spam
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This is really good..commendable and commentable..!Report as spam
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