The ClearBlue Caribbean Clean-up

Welcome to our Feasibility Study Crowdfunding Campaign page to validate the Clear Blue Oceans Foundation (CBO Foundation) ocean plastic waste to energy solution proposal for the Caribbean.

We are raising funding to validate our initial findings that indicate both ocean and landfill plastic packaging waste products within the Caribbean Sea, can be sucessfully collected, monetized, processed into fuel oil and used to generate local power.

Our priminary findings indicate that mixed waste plastic and styrofoam products, combined with foam rubber and scrap tires offer a substantial man-made unnatural renewable energy resource. 

We believe a workable waste management solution can be developed and implimented to greatly reduce the growing environmental impact this waste has on our oceans and local marine eco-systems, whicle also addressing the growing waste issues this region now faces.

With your support we will be able to better understand the values locked up in the waste that now litters our islands, coastlines and fills landfills to capacity in the Caribbean, but also build a model that other regions can use to do the same. Funding will help us accomplish the following tasks:

1) Define the top 30 Caribbean Countries and their current population figures, and validate the individual and collective waste created within the region (see our blog post "How Much Plastic Waste Does The Average Caribbean Resident Create)

2) Form the ClearBlue Caribbean Waste2Energy Partnership (CBC Partnership), a non-profit oranization to be complrised of Caribbean governments, travel providers, residents, travelers, product manufacturers and retailers (the Partners) the will oversee the ongoing ClearBlue Caribbean Clean-up Project, plus build its clearbluecaribbean.org website.

3) Define a self-funding startegy and waste fee structure that all Partners collect from travelers and residents to fund a CBC Partnership Trust that will offset the waste collection strategy by  Monetizing Plastic Waste In The Caribbean on a regional basis. (See chart below that shares out initial thinking)

4) Develop a detailed business and operating plan forthe Caribbean Waste2Energy Group  (CW2EG), the for-profit division of the CBC Partnership to impliment under its direction, with profits reverting back into the Trust.

5) Define all necessary equipment, plant locations, waste collection center locations, key managemnt structure and personnel required to successfully operate an ongoing Waste2Energy program.  Plus define all related capital and operating costs.

6) Define all equipment vendors, partnerships, costsValidate our initial findings of individual consumer plastic waste consumtion patterns and estimated pounds per month of waste each create (currently estimated at five pound per resident)

7) Develop a three day "Let's Talk Caribbean Trash" Conference in December 2015 to share our findings with local governments, travel industry and residents, and all those interested via webcast.

The goal is to determine the best way to operate the world's largest ever ongoing ocean plastic waste and island landfill clean-up projects ever undertaken. to make the Caribbean  the cleanest holiday travel and sailing destination in the world.

The estimated cost of the study and business plan development is expected to cost over $1 million, as our teams will travel to all countries to get accurate on the ground information on population, survey consumer buying habits, visit landfills and define issues and waste product estimates.

We will meet with government officals, travel providers and resident to determine realistic waste fees and outline the value of the program from all economic viewpoints.
 
The problem is global in scale, as as we continue to allow over 20 tons of Plastic Waste to enter our oceans EVERY MINUTE!  This represents over 10.5 million tons each year, and much of it collects on remote islands and coastlines.

Add that to the fact that most island landfills are beyond capacity and environmentally unstable, filled with plastic and used tires that often create toxic fires. All need to be refurbished through a waste recovery program that can turn this waste into electricuty.

As a result of this ever-growing waste trend many of our world’s most beautiful island destinations, including those in the Caribbean Sea are being buried under mountains of trash that just can’t be disposed of at a fast enough rate.

We have developed a fun, educational and rewarding new way to address the ocean plastic waste and local landfill waste issues within the Caribbean, and we now need your help to get it started.


Through a self-funding CBC Trust Fund we hope to  collect pre-set contributions from Partnership Participation Waste Fees. to fund the ClearBlue Caribbean Cleanup long-term.

Through this funding effort we will be able to start building and hiring full time staff to pursue and bring the estimated 10,000 potential CBC Partnership participants together to help solve a serious Caribbean waste problem that continues to grow at an alarming rate.

Please support our funding effort and take a few extra minutes to help us determine the potential waste fees to impliment by taking our short 15 question survey. Your opinion is important to us.

When you contribute $100 or more to our campaign, we will provide you with a free link to our full conference webcast (valued at $399).  You'll have a front row seat at every forum, workshop and featured speaker presentation.

It's going to be the ultimate challenge and certainly not going to happen overnight! Your financial support will get us to the self-funding stage to reverse the damaging Caribbean waste trends long-term.

Thank you in advance for your help and support.. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook .