Tom Cotter’s eco-friendly OCEANR line is everywhere from Richard Branson’s Necker Island to megayachts around the world.
In 2016, 26-year-old Irishman Tom Cotter founded a small start-up with three of his school friends to produce eco-friendly rash vests. Within three years, the company had transformed into a global manufacturer of high-quality activewear and won the contract to supply Richard Branson’s Necker Island. The key to his success withThis $450,000-a-Week Villa in St. Barts Has Direct Beach Access and Its Own Sauna. Here’s a Look Inside.
“We consider ourselves to be the sustainability specialists who operate at the active end of the yachting pipeline,” says Cotter, who first found an affinity with the sea during childhood family holidays to the Greek island of Lefkada. It paved the way for his interest in watersports, growing from pupil to instructor to budding environmentalist.
Cotter is proud of his company’s achievements, which has recovered over 1 million plastic bottles from the sea to date and claims to remove two pounds of ocean waste with every purchase. But he is equally candid about its limitations. “Our clothing is not fully ocean plastic, and I don’t think anyone can claim to be,” he says. “Ocean waste is so contaminated and degraded that it’s too low quality to use independently.
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