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What is Shore-Plast™?

Shore-Plast™ is our durable material made from ocean-bound plastic used as the shell on our Solar Boombox, Juicepack, and HomeBase electronics products range. It's also used in our Shoreline watch collection.

What is Shore-Tex®?

Shore-Tex® is our fabric made from ocean-bound plastic. It's a durable and long lasting fabric made from recycled plastic. It's used as the shell fabric on our backpacks, as well as the lining fabric on our backpacks and suitcases. We also use Shore-

What are your future sustainability goals and plans?

We will remain plastic negative, and as we get our status to carbon negative too, we'll continue to work with ethical partners around the world doing ocean cleanup work, as well as carbon capture projects. We're obessed with our ocean - it creates 70

Are your products vegan?

While we aren't officially Vegan Certified™, none of our products contain any animal byproduct to our knowledge. We confirm this internaly with our supply chain and manufacturing partners annually. Materials you see on the product that may appear to

Are you carbon neutral?

We are working on this now (posted December 2021) with the target of all our activites being carbon neurtral and negative during 2022. We will do this through offsets at first, as we learn the areas we can minimize our initial impact. We have alrea

Are you plastic neutral or plastic negative? What's the difference?

While we usually have a positive outlook on like - in this case we're negative!   Plastic negative means that, we don't have any single use plastics in our products, and we don't use any single use plastic in our shipping process. (excpet for the gla

What do you mean '229 plastic bottles saved from the ocean with each order'?

We use ocean-bound plastic in the production and manufacturing of most of our products. The amount of upcycled ocean-bound material used is not included in this number.   On top of all ocean-bound plastic content, we work with collection partners in