Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

Un geste pour la mer Upcycling is a 3-year program, in partnership with the Fondation de la Mer, to develop plastic waste recovery channels to transform them into sustainable goods.

Thanks to this partnership, associations and startups - which have taken up the challenge of innovating from plastic waste - will be financially supported to enable them to reach a milestone in the development of their activities needed for the future we want!

THE PROJECT

It is essential today to rethink our consumption patterns to introduce more circularity. Our UPCYCLING program aims to meet this challenge by combining ecology and economy through the creation of value locally from the plastic waste collected.

The KRESK Group, through its endowment fund KRESK4OCEANS, is very proud to commit itself alongside the Fondation de la Mer.

Thanks to this alliance we have the ambition to reconcile the protection of the oceans with the development of the local economy, a real virtuous circle." Didier TABARY


Conciliate ecology and economics

Upcycling is a way to create value by recovering plastic waste and reusing it as raw material to create a new sustainable object.

It is a form of super recycling that promotes the emergence of a circular economy. These wastes, which we no longer have a use for, can be transformed into materials, and even into products of higher quality or utility.

In the Ocean, our wastes are a poison. Collected on land and sorted, it is reinvented.

What is Upcycling?

Valorization of plastics in furniture, interior design and art objects + production of machine for the upcycling sector.

Valorization in jewelry and art objects

Valorization of plastics into interior furniture, decorative objects and awareness workshops.

Valorization of plastics into interior furniture, decorative objects and awareness workshops.

Cigarette butts into energy (treated as toxic waste)

L'ATELIER DES RECYCLEURS FOUS

SAUVAGE

RESAK

rehab

RECYCLOP

VENDÉE

NOUVELLE AQUITAINE - PACA

PAYS BASQUE

BRETAGNE - QUIMPER

PACA - MARSEILLE

Discover the network of French actors who innovate with our plastic waste!

The structures supported so far

Association for the preservation of the environment in the South Landes sector: cleaning actions, awareness, alternatives

PICKITUP40

LANDES

Workshops on digital and traditional manufacturing, on waste recycling, digital mediation workshops

fablab La Verrière

ILE DE FRANCE

Promotion of 3D printing to give a second life to objects.

FABLAB34

PACA

Ecosystem of responsible creativity in the service of the circular economy, sobriety and responsible design.

LA MATIERE

NOUVELLE AQUITAINE

Fight against plastic pollution in the Mediterranean, and committed to low-tech research, local recycling experiments and the promotion of zero waste

MARE VIVU

MEDITERRANNEE

Projects in favor of sustainable fishing and maritime activities, as well as the preservation of the marine environment, in the Mediterranean

APAM

MEDITERRANNEE

Duo d'artistes s'intéressant au processus de transformation de déchets plastiques au profit d’une production artistique alternative et sensible.

LES PETITS LABOS

MARSEILLE

Awareness activities on plastic reduction, reuse and recycling.

AUTREMENT PLASTIQUE

MARSEILLE

Awareness activities on plastic reduction, reuse and recycling.

FALEPA CORSICA

CORSE

Educational and environmental project through plastic recycling.

PRECIOUS PLASTIC PROVENCE

PROVENCE

Duo of artists interested in the process of transformation of plastic waste for the benefit of an alternative and sensitive artistic production.

LES PETITS LABOS

MARSEILLE

Beautiful, sustainable, inspiring furniture from locally sourced recycled plastics.

LA PLASTIQUERIE

NOUVELLE AQUITAINE