Electrolux are very well known vacuum cleaner and home appliance manufacturer and a few years ago they surprised many with their \’Vac From The Sea\’ campaign. The Pacific is polluted with very large floating plastic islands and Electrolux gathered this plastic from the oceans and turned it into a number of showroom vacuum cleaners to highlight this pollution.

Their initiative called \’Vac from the Sea\’ brought attention to the issue of plastic pollution and dumping in our seas, and at the same time battling the lack of recyclable plastics which are used for making everyday home appliances.

It is estimated that less than one percent of all plastic that is manufactured are recycled and this is a major concern and the responsibility of everyone. This plastic pollution is an issue that is too important to just ignore.

Electrolux appliances are in the homes of millions of us. Plastic is one of the main raw materials used for making vacuum cleaners and Electrolux rely on a huge supply of recycled plastic for production.

There are drifting plastic islands floating in our oceans. But on land we seem to struggle to harness enough recycled plastic to meet the demand for sustainable vacuum cleaners or other home appliances that we take for granted. The \’Vac From The Sea\’ is a great idea by Electrolux to produce vacuum cleaners from recycled plastic and not by using just any plastic. They specifically wanted to create vacuum cleaners from the plastic they gathered from the sea whether it came from floating plastic drifts or from washed up plastic on the shore.

The \’Vac From The Sea\’ conception was for Electrolux hoping to highlight two fundamental problems with plastic as the demand for plastic to recycle into more sustainable goods that outweighs supply. This means those who want to create products from recycled plastic can have trouble doing so.

But there is still a very large amount of plastic in the worlds oceans to be gathered. Electrolux maintain that the plastic debris floating in the sea are many times larger than the state of Kentucky.

Obviously this plastic causes huge problems for the environment, wildlife and ruining surrounding eco systems that we cherish. Only one percent of the plastic being recycled is such a low amount. Regarding Electrolux \’Vac From The Sea\’ this environmental nightmare can be developed into a new resource to give more recycled plastic that can be used to manufacture much needed household items such as these vacuum cleaners and appliances.

Electrolux have made it clear that they plan to get rid of the plastic drifts in various ways depending on which zones they are concentrating on. Methods will include deep sea diving to recover the plastic and trawling it from the waves.

Also manual cleaning by hand. The plastic recovered from the seas that is modelled into these products would never really find its way back into the oceans as the dream could be that no other plastic would find their way back into the oceans and that this big plastic clean up operation can highlight the real purpose for many to recycle more for our planets sake. These Electrolux vacuum cleaners produced from dumped plastic certainly caught the imagination of the world.

Author Bio: A J Pipkin is marketing editor of Ecovacuumcleaner.com where there are several Electrolux canister vacuums on site. Full Reviews photos and video.

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