Helping Pacific communities recycle plastic

A MARINE turtle that died after ingesting more than 15 types of plastic in Wooli River, gave local woman Louise Hardman the motivation and determination to do something about ocean debris.

Louise’s current mission is to empower communities to clean up plastic materials from the Pacific Ocean coastlines. So she founded ‘The Pacific Collective’ – a business to produce machines that recycle, remould and repurpose plastic waste.