buoy LLC

We produce beautiful artifacts from marine plastic waste. Our patented technology allows us to use 100% of the mixed plastic waste that washes on our shores and turn it into artifacts. Each product is one-and-only, with beautiful colors and patterns derived from the trash. We labeled all products with information about the volunteer organization that picked them up. The consumer can view that information at any time via QR code or built-in NFC, and they always connect to the volunteer organization on the web. Purchasers of "buoy" can help volunteer organizations financially and emotionally through the products, which directly contribute to society. Although many may not know, Japan receives enormous amounts of plastic waste from China and other Asian countries, which may be the worst in the world. If not picked up in Japan, they spread worldwide. Sadly, collecting this debris through local volunteers' efforts is unseen. "buoy" helps these volunteers by purchasing the trash and turning it into beautiful products, providing it to the consumer market. In other words, buying "buoy" is directly linked to sustainable garbage collection. Furthermore, purchasing "buoy" saves volunteers emotionally in making the meaning of trash collection. "buoy" is made by our original recycling technology of mixed materials, the website and NFC technology that connect volunteers and consumers, and a network of volunteer organizations throughout Japan. "buoy" products produce only with this culmination of technologies and networks.