Musashi's vision of the future
The Reality of Marine Debris
Estimated marine plastic debris reached 8 million tons and continues to flow into the ocean yearly. According to the 2010 data from Science magazine, the cumulative total ocean waste has risen to 150 million tons by now. This data is already quite old, and the current volume is estimated to be considerably higher than this.
Concept
Musashi‘s concept is to create non-discardable products from discarded plastic. As a concrete means of achieving this, we have attempted to take plastic washed ashore as marine debris and transform it into beautiful artifacts and utility products.
About Tsushima
Tsushima is an island located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, surrounded by Japan, South Korea, and China. It is abundant in sea, mountains, and nature, and its beautiful scenery attracts many people. Additionally, Tsushima has become famous due to the game "GHOST OF TSUSHIMA". This game depicts the history and culture of Tsushima and captivates many game enthusiasts.
Current Situation in Tsushima
The other side of the beautiful sea
plastic bottle cap
sandal
Water Tank
mannequin
The island with the most marine plastic debris in Japan
3,000 Tons
of marine plastic in Tsushima every year
80%
Asian garbage is washed onto the island by typhoons
We will not be able to eat good fish in the future.
Marine debris causes a variety of problems. Even now, the amount of garbage continues to increase, and clean oceans are disappearing.
We believe that companies also need to change.
Beach Cleaning Steps
STEP01｜
Picking up trash
STEP02｜
Trash Transportation
STEP03｜
Separate by color and crush
MICHINAO SUENAGA
TSUSHIMA CAPPA DIRECTOR
Our main activities are to promote awareness and clean up beaches to solve the marine debris problem.Our prioritized activity has been a volunteer activity called beach cleanup. However, even after cleaning the beach, debris keeps re-drifting and cannot beremedied.
TSUYOSHI MAEDA
TSUSHIMA CITY'S SDGS PROMOTION DIVISION CHIEF
We are now investing about 280 million yen annually to collect and process the waste, but we can collect only about 8,000 m3 per year, compared to 20,000 to 30,000 m3. I have two children, ages 9 and 6, but they cannot play innocently in the beautiful ocean like we experienced when we were little. I let my daughter and son play in the ocean, but they can only play in the midst of massive amounts of trash and microplastics.
Turning marine debris into colorful knives
The Tsushima ocean knife may be a small approach, but we believe that if we continue it for a long time and get more people interested, surely the next generation and the generation after that will be able to continue to live on this beautiful planet.
new products
Tsushima Ocean Knife
The Marine Plastic material in the handle is lightweight and comfortable.These new second generation Ocean Plastic handles have a NFC Chips embedded in the end of the handle. If you tap it to your phone it will open a link to our website where you can find more information about your knife and our recycled plastic program.
DIscover NowTsushima Ocean Knife is not yet complete.
All of our Marine Plastic Handles are made from recycled ocean plastics reclaimed from the beaches of Tsushima. Our company wants to make an effort to help clean up the wasted ocean plastics and beaches and to do our best to leave a cleaner world for the next generation. Our process of making these handles is still underdevelopment, as such they sometimes are shipped with minor imperfections.If there is a problem with the knife, we will exchange it for a new one if you pay the shipping cost. And we will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sales of these knives to the Tsushima project.