11 ocean-friendly companies like Patagonia and Adidas that are removing plastic from our seas and transforming it into cool new products

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This day in age, it's almost hard to justify buying much of anything not made with recycled plastic. Here's a list of our favorite brands doing their part.

they make it into our oceans.

From sunglasses to skateboard wheels, the array of products being made from recycled ocean plastics is growing so rapidly it's dizzying. No, really: Since I began putting this article together the other day, at least three such products have landed on my desk, and my inbox has probably seen twice as many emails alerting me to this brand or that now using recycled ocean plastics in some way.

If you're having trouble figuring out which brands to support in these endeavors, the short answer is: all of them. It's impossible to fathom how much plastic is really in the ocean. Though the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum makeaccording to a report by PlasticsEurope, totaled about 384 million tonsThe good news is that, with all that plastic afloat in the ocean, we can probably stop making the stuff, especially thanks to companies like

 

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