Name: OCEAN ashlar 'black'
Brand: Fitz & Huxley
SKU: 6001
Price: 89.9 EUR
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World’s first backpack made from recycled ocean bound plastic, certified and controlled by an independent organisation. Plastic collection generates income for the poor.

Vegan unisex backpack
Removable laptop sleeve and three spacious interior zipper-pockets (for up to 16”). You buy one backpack but get two stand-alone bags.
Spacious front pocket
Anti-theft compartment keeps keys or wallet safe but easily accessible.

Material

Water-repellent, robust recycled polyester
More than 90% of the backpack is made from recycled material.
100% vegan materials (PETA approved)
Durable and machine washable

Size

Volume: 17 litres (good for 2-3 days of travel)
44 cm (H) x 32 cm (W) x 12 cm (D)

This bag is made of recycled ocean bound plastic!

Why ocean plastic? Garbage left or disposed on beaches and riverbanks ends up in the ocean eventually, adding up to the already huge plastic pollution in our seas. Once the plastic is in the ocean it is quite hard and expensive to recover it. Our approach is to collect the plastic waste before it can get into the oceans, recycle it and turn it into new bags. Thereby we protect the oceans and its marine life as well as us humans and our climate.

Learn here more how the protection of our oceans has a multitude of positive effects on our planet.

🏷️ Buy this backpack in a bundle and save 60% on the matching OCEAN hip bag

Product Details

Compact backpack made of recycled ocean bound plastic with plenty of storage space: thanks to its cuboid shape, the OCEAN ashlar surprises with its capacity and can easily stow a thick A4 folder, for example.
The outer material is made from 100% recycled ocean bound plastic and has a coarse, grainy structure that hardly feels like polyester but more like a canvas tissue. This fabric is water-repellent and protects against wind and weather. The splash-proof zippers keep the contents of the backpack and outer pockets dry. Despite its coarse structure, the upper material is soil-resisting and is easy to clean.
The padded shoulder straps ensure a high level of comfort without looking too bulky.
Spacious front pocket with splash-proof zipper.
On the back of the backpack there is a anti-theft outside pocket for your most important items. Here you keep them here safely but easily accessible.
Buckles are made of anthracite-colored metal.
The OCEAN ashlar comes with a detachable padded laptop sleeve for notebooks up to 15.6 "in size or 16‘ ‘MacBook Pro (version 2021). Inner dimensions of the sleeve: 39 x 28 x 3cm. The laptop sleeve can be attached inside the OCEAN ashlar with a Velcro mechanism.
Two spacious pockets (with zippers) inside.
Black inner fabric made from 100% recycled ocean plastic.
Your backpack is machine washable at 30°.
For the production of the OCEAN ashlar, 2.4kg of ocean bound plastic was recovered and recycled.
Weight: 860g

You can find more information about the models in the OCEAN collection and our innovative recycling supply chain here.

FAQ

Does the recycled material make my backpack less durable than if it had been made with new plastic?

Basically, the quality of the material in the manufacture of backpacks from recycled ocean bound plastic is a challenge. Due to environmental influences such as solar radiation or salty sea water, the material loses its quality, can become brittle and then only be recycled in a correspondingly inferior quality. This often occurs with stiff fabrics. Unlike other backpack brands, we use a flexible but abrasion-resistant fabric that has been developed for us, which does not break and is therefore very durable.

Why do you focus on the oceans? What about other environmental issues?

To stop littering the oceans has a multitude of positive effects on our planet. We protect marine life that for example gets caught in plastic waste or ingest plastic as supposed food, then cannot digest it and die on a “full stomach”. But we also protect ourselves - because we ingest microplastics from the oceans through the food chain.

Researchers also suspect that microplastics in the nutrient cycle of algae have negative effects on the climate. Because: Algae - more precisely phytoplankton - use sunlight, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water to produce organic material in the photosynthesis process. This is what they feed on. Researchers fear that microplastics as supposed food inhibits this process. That could have enormous effects on our climate, because what many do not know: The phytoplankton in the oceans use about as much carbon dioxide as the land plants on the continents. Hence, it plays an important role in regulating our climate.

Our recycling approach not only helps to keep the oceans clean and this marine ecosystem intact. Recycling also helps to reduce greenhouse gases overall and thus protect our climate. Because: one ton of recycled plastic saves 2 tons of crude oil and up to 1.6 tons of CO2, which would be used in the production of new plastic.

Our high quality standards in materials and craftsmanship ensure that our backpacks and bags have a long life ahead of them. This saves resources and the environment. "Don't buy more, buy better" has been our philosophy since inception.

We also save CO2 through our regional supply chain: all steps from plastic waste collection to recycling, yarn production, weaving to the final bag production take place regionally in India.

In addition, we promote an understanding of garbage as a valuable source of raw materials among the Indian population. The fact that we pay people to collect rubbish leads to a rethink which in turn counteracts the indifferent disposal of rubbish in the environment. Do you want to learn more? You can find all FAQ here.

Collecting plastic generates regular income:

In our bags there is not only an ecological but also a social core: collecting plastic for the OCEAN line enables the poorest of the poor to earn a living while cleaning the environment from plastic waste. Since they often cannot read and write, they otherwise have little prospect of a regular income. The OCEAN line addresses three urgent problems at once: 1. Poverty and hunger, 2. Environmental pollution from plastic and 3. Increasing the recycling rate of raw materials instead of new production. Become a part of this change too!

We need to act now!

8 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans every year. This plastic affects us all: its in our water, our animals and in us. Something has to be done! Prevention and cleaning is the key to it as well as building up supply chains that allows to recycle plastic in an economical as well as sustainable manner and values plastic trash as the valuable source of resources as it is.

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Collecting plastic waste: earn income and clean up the environment.

So far, plastic waste has had no value in India. We are changing that and contributing to a rethinking: because collecting plastic enables those who otherwise have little chances due to a lack of education or status to earn a regular income. At the same time, these people prevent the plastic waste from entering the sea and thus protect our oceans, which gives them a sense of purpose.

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Our promise to you and our planet is certified and controlled

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Socially and Ecologically Responsible Production

We not only want to produce beautiful, high-quality and functional backpacks, but also act in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Therefore our production is SEDEX and SA8000 certified. These renowned standards ensure good working and social conditions in our supply chain and the processes involved, controlled by an independent body. The responsible management for the protection of the environment ensures the certification according to ISO 14001. We achieve high quality and few rejects through certification according to ISO 9001. You can find out more about our production here.

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