073: Seabin Project's Pete Ceglinski on Cleaning Our Oceans, Simple Solutions, and Focusing Upstream

Australian surfer, father, and clean ocean advocate Pete Ceglinski is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Seabin Project. Seabin, a device designed to reduce, and ultimately eliminate pollution in our oceans, acts as a trash can for our waters and has the ability to remove microplastics, microfibers, plastic bags, bottles, cigarette butts, and more. Along with the development of the Seabin Project as a business, Pete is heavily involved in the technical design and development of the products. Since he co-founded the invention in 2015 there have been Seabins installed in over 40 countries, resulting in a total of 1.95 tons of waste extracted from our oceans every day.

 

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In this episode Marjorie and Pete Ceglinski discuss:

• How Seabin is creating strategic partnerships with municipalities and marinas to get Seabins installed all across the globe
• How a Seabin works and how simplicity was their key to success during the creation process
• Where Pete and the Seabin team see taking their invention in the near future 
• How you, your company or group can get involved, even if you don't live near the water

 

Resources from Pete:

• Patagonia
• Guy Raz's How I Built This podcast
• Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace (Amazon) by Ricardo Semler
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual (Amazon) by Yvon Chouinard

 

Connect with Pete Ceglinski and the Seabin Project:

• Website: SeabinProject.com
• Instagram: @Seabin_Project 
• Facebook: @SeabinProject 

 

Connect with Marjorie Alexander:

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Website: asustainablemind.com

 

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