One million plastic bottles are discarded every minute around the world. An innovative soft furnishings company is helping to address this environmental disaster by making home accessories from recycled waste plastic.
As ocean sailors, Rupert and Nikki Rowe were well acquainted with the problem of maritime garbage patches, huge aggregations of predominantly discarded plastics clogging up the world’s oceans and causing catastrophic impact on marine life and ecosystems. They’d spent a collective 23 years based in the south of France, crewing on super yachts sailing the…