– Sjøløve Plastfangst collect, process og remelt marine plastic waste and single-use plastics into hand made art and design collectibles.

VRAKE / NORWEGIAN verb / 

1. Refrain from making use of, discarding, giving up completely, unsuitable, useless. ; wreck

2. Make use of, salvage suitable objects from the sea, especially from shipwrecks.

PROUD PART OF THE PRECIOUS PLASTIC GLOBAL INITIATIVE

– We’re not making new products; we store old ones.

SEE THE FILM ABOUT SJØLØVE

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MADE BY
fisherman´s friend

Our systemic single-use plastic abuse has got to end. Therefore, everything we do at Sjøløve are waged with one single objective – single-use plastic belongs in the museum.

Inspired by the principles of carbon capture/-storage and crowdsourcing, our work is based on our idea of crowd storage. Plastics in nature is a pollutant. It has to be collected, and stored safely.

Why not store it in our homes?

– To catch, prosess, shred up and melt down marine ocean plastic is a meticulous process. We harvest whenever we can. Out in a skiff. On surf trips. Alone, or together.

SJØLØVE / noun + verb / 
1. SEALION in NOrwegian
2. Love for the sea in norwenglish

– The craft

VIDEO: Why plastic belongs in the museum

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Cyrill Gutsch
Parley

The marine plastic we can use, we wash with water, shred up and melt down in an oven – in hand-welded molds of our own creation. The molds are opened, the objects trimmed, cold-worked and quality checked.

The result is something brand new – both in appearance and connotation.