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Polymateria
Polymateria is a London-based materials science company that has developed Biotransformation, a masterbatch additive that lets everyday polyolefin plastics fully biodegrade in the open environment within about a year - breaking down into a wax that microbes consume, leaving only CO2, water and biomass with no microplastics. Its technology underpins the BSI PAS 9017 standard and is sold to converters and brands worldwide through its consumer-facing Lyfecycle brand.
RanMarine Technology
RanMarine Technology is a Rotterdam-based marine robotics company that builds autonomous, electric aquadrones - led by its flagship WasteShark - to remove floating plastic, debris and biomass from ports, marinas, harbours and inland waterways while collecting water-quality data. Founded in South Africa in 2015 and re-incorporated in the Netherlands, the company sells hardware plus a connected data platform to ports, municipalities, water authorities, facilities firms and NGOs across several continents.
Oceanworks®
Oceanworks is a Los Angeles-based B2B platform that makes it easy for brands to buy verified recycled ocean and ocean-bound plastic and to fund the cleanup of plastic that has no resale value. It runs a global marketplace connecting collectors and recyclers with major consumer brands, backs every transaction with its Oceanworks Guaranteed traceability system, and sells IMPAC+ plastic offsets that work like carbon credits for plastic waste. The idea is simple: turn corporate demand into a paycheck for the people pulling plastic out of coastlines before it reaches the sea.
Vanessa Coleman
Vanessa Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Oceanworks, the largest global marketplace for recycled plastic materials and products. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT engineering and Sloan MBA background, she has turned mismanaged ocean-bound plastic into a traceable, brand-grade supply chain. Before Oceanworks she was founding CEO of power-electronics company FINsix and co-founded the clean-water social enterprise Saha Global. Her work connects hundreds of brands to vetted regional recyclers, backed by the Oceanworks Guaranteed certification and shore-to-shelf traceability.