My Nonprofit Reviews

Imagine you have time travelled back 100 years and asked a fellow entrepreneur about the viability of an entirely new process that that can produce a product from which bottles can be made in the billions with a unit cost of a fraction of a penny. Your fellow entrepreneur shared your enthusiasm for the new product but asked you: "what is going to happen to all of those cheap bottles after they have been used?". Without hesitation you answered: "the bottles will be collected in bins to be later reused or repurposed"
Fast forward to the present day we know the reality is quite different as only a small fraction of plastic is reused or repurposed. Blind sighted by the success of your product not only did you not work on modifications to the product to make it more sustainable you encouraged the formation of governmental lobbies to ensure the unlimited production of that plastic into the future - shame on you !

Today, the job of finding ways of curbing plastic pollution for a large part is left to environmental scientists who are usually employed by non-profits such as Plastic Ocean Project. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to teach the younger generations how to be more responsible planet citizens than we have been, to show them we care about their future.

As a retired chemical engineer who worked for over 30 years to make water safer to drink around the world I am now proud to help the non-profit Plastic Ocean Project in any way that I can.