Bracenet : Our mission

+200000

EURO DONATED SO FAR

With our products, we collect donations for marine and environmental protection. So far, we have donated 200,000 € to organizations such as Healthy Seas, Sea Shepherd, Everwave, the Ocean Voyages Institute and many more. The largest part of this (140,000 €) is our support for Healthy Seas, to actively support the recovery of ghost nets and additional preventive measures. More to come!

+773

TONS OF GHOST NETS RECOVERED

More than 250 voluntary divers from Healthy Seas and Ghost Diving regularly head out to sea to recover more and more ghost nets. To date, they have recovered more than 773 tons, which corresponds approximately to the weight of 6 blue whales. Our donations help to fund boat rentals, hazard training and diving equipment, among other things. Thank you for your help!

+190

KILOMETERS OF GHOST NETS UPCYCLED

After they have been brought ashore, our recovered ghost nets are sorted and cleaned with water by Nofir, then we upcycle them with love by hand in Hamburg into many new products like our Bracenets and dog leashes. Until today, we have given a new life to about 190,000 meters of ghost nets – that is the length of a total of 8,000 sperm whales!

190.000 €

DONATED SO FAR With our products, we collect donations for marine and environmental protection. So far, we have donated 190,000 € to organizations such as Healthy Seas, Sea Shepherd, Everwave, the Ocean Voyages Institute and many more. The largest part of this (140,000 €) is our support for Healthy Seas, to actively support the recovery of ghost nets and additional preventive measures. More to come! 773 TONS
OF GHOST NETS RECOVERED More than 250 voluntary divers from Healthy Seas and Ghost Diving regularly head out to sea to recover more and more ghost nets. To date, they have recovered more than 773 tons, which corresponds approximately to the weight of 6 blue whales. Our donations help to fund boat rentals, hazard training and diving equipment, among other things. Thank you for your help! 190 KILOMETERS
OF GHOST NETS UPCYCLED After they have been brought ashore, our recovered ghost nets are sorted and cleaned with water by Nofir, then we upcycle them with love by hand in Hamburg into many new products like our Bracenets and dog leashes. Until today, we have given a new life to about 190,000 meters of ghost nets – that is the length of a total of 8,000 sperm whales!

ghost nets are hunting our oceans the oceans are
drowning in a flood
of plastic waste
THE PROBLEM

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the five major plastic gyres in our oceans, covers an area 4.5 times the size of Germany. And what’s even more surprising: 46 % of it is composed of ghost nets. These are fishing nets that were either lost or intentionally discarded at sea. Every year, up to 1 million more tons of these nets end up in our oceans. They lose their purpose but not their function and pose a great danger to marine animals. Ghost nets haunt the oceans for centuries to come until they have decomposed into dangerous microplastics in 600-800 years – or until we do something about it!

MORE ABOUT THE STORY OF BRACENET our founders climbing over tons of nets removing ghost
nets from the
oceans OUR MISSION We want the oceans to be as they once were – free of plastic! That's why we recover ghost nets and upcycle them into new products, which are your contribution to the protection of our oceans. We rely on local, fair production by hand in our workshop in Hamburg. We regularly donate to Healthy Seas to finance further recovery missions and preventive measures and support many other projects for the protection of the oceans and marine life.

every product
means one piece
of ghost net less we manufacture all products in upcycling handwork our products For most of the nets we use, we partner closely with Healthy Seas, Ghost Diving and Nofir. Healthy Seas navigates recovery missions with Ghost Diving's 200 specially trained volunteers worldwide, then Nofir cleans the nets in an environmentally friendly way using only water. We also receive nets from other organizations that retrieve nets from the oceans nets, as well as discarded nets directly from fisheries. Then it's our turn! We upcycle the nets by hand into our products like Bracenets, dog leashes, key chains and rings. Every product is unique and a strong statement for the protection of our seas.

We'd rather use old resources than waste new ones. We provide ghost nets with a new life. That means we are reusing resources that hardly anyone else thinks are valuable and that would otherwise keep threatening oceans and ecosystems. Furthermore, we are democratising environmental protection, as every product helps to finance additional ghost net recovery missions and other great projects. When you wear a Bracenet around your wrist, you share our message with the world. It's a conversation starter, a statement, and a daily companion for a more conscious way of life.
circular economy

No plastic. Well, except for our nets. We consider every step, from our materials to your doorstep. We pack our products in small organic cotton bags (which you can later reuse for other purposes) and use recycled paper envelopes that we seal with cotton thread or recycled cardboard boxes for larger orders. Within Germany, we ship all orders via DHL GoGreen, which includes a carbon offset. You will never find plastic in our products – except for the plastic of the nets themselves, of course. packaging and shipping We manufacture our products with much love by hand. Nevertheless, it can sometimes happen that a product breaks over time – but we want you to be able to use your Bracenet product forever! Therefore, if something is not right, just send it back to us and we will repair it for you. Free of charge, of course! Just contact us at [email protected] or look here. We keep any pieces of nets that we have to replace for other projects and give defective clasps to a scrap and metal trading company. They are then melted down with other scrap metals of the same alloy and processed, for instance, into new pipes.
repairs Buy once, wear forever.

handing over donations
to healthy seas the oceans are
grateful for
your support
our joint impact Your Bracenet product is your very own contribution to the protection of our oceans. It doesn’t only remove a piece of ghost net from the sea but also helps to finance further recovery missions, build up diving teams all over the world and spread the word about preventive measures. Together, we also support many other great marine conservation projects. For example, we are fighting with Sea Shepherd for the survival of harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea, with Shark Allies for shark populations worldwide, and with the Charles Darwin Foundation for biodiversity around the Galapagos Islands. All that is only possible with your help!

our donation handover to
"houseboat huckleberry finn" bracenet is about
more than the
environment
how we work together We are not just here for the oceans. But also for those, who fight for them – our team, our partners and all the great people out there. Our team members support each other wherever they can in our cosy office, and when we are not currently fighting a pandemic, we come together to cook or even throw a party every now and then (completely plastic-free, by the way). We also collaborate closely with the Lebenshilfewerk Neumünster, a workshop for people with disabilities. They help us with occasional product innovations and, for example, manufacture the net handles for our soulbottles. Last but not least, we support projects like the "Houseboat Huckleberry Finn," which is designed to give children with disabilities access to relaxing and recreational experiences on the water.

sneak peek into our bracenet production you
haven't
had enough ?
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THE PROBLEM

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