{"id":681909,"date":"2026-07-09T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:46:15","slug":"dorset-based-company-brothers-make-teamed-up-with-4ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681909\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset-based company Brothers Make teamed up with 4ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dorset-based recycled plastics company Brothers Make has teamed up with global ocean clean-up organisation 4ocean to transform plastic waste into bracelet beads.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Brothers Make, founded by brothers Matt and Jonny Browning, produced 200,000 recycled plastic beads for 4ocean\u2019s bracelet collection using waste items such as bottle caps, DVD cases, and shampoo bottles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jonny Browning, co-founder of Brothers Make, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to think of plastic waste as something with no value, but projects like this show the opposite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Each bracelet from the Brothers Make and 4ocean partnership sold funds the removal of one pound of rubbish from ocean, rivers, and coastlines. (Image: Brothers Make)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The material we&#8217;re using would otherwise have been discarded, yet it&#8217;s now part of a product helping fund clean-up efforts around the world.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Each 4ocean bracelet sold funds the removal of one pound of rubbish from ocean, rivers, and coastlines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since 2017, Florida-based 4ocean has removed more than 50 million pounds of plastic and trash through its global clean-up operations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scott Dustin, head of e-commerce at 4ocean, said: &#8220;At 4ocean, we believe the biggest environmental challenges won&#8217;t be solved by one organisation alone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They&#8217;ll be solved by like-minded organisations bringing different strengths to the same mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Brothers Make embodies that mindset.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For more information, visit the Brothers Make and 4ocean websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorset-based recycled plastics company Brothers Make has teamed up with global ocean clean-up organisation 4ocean to transform plastic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}