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Meet our relentless, hands-on team of builders, thinkers, and doers working towards one goal: stopping plastic waste before it ever reaches the ocean.
Our Story
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We come from Green Worms
GreenwormsTwelve years into this journey, we decided to build a focused initiative dedicated entirely to challenging plastic that flows into our waterways and oceans. That led us to become End Ocean Plastic.
So we created End Ocean Plastic
We brought together a team of community leaders, environmental advocates, and systems thinkers to build something that could outlast any one campaign — a permanent infrastructure for ocean plastic recovery.
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We built a system
We work with local communities to collect, sort, and route plastics through an end-to-end recovery system. This ensures waste is brought back into the economy, while also inspiring dignified green jobs and long-term livelihoods across a network of coastal communities.
We come from Green Worms
GreenwormsTwelve years into this journey, we decided to build a focused initiative dedicated entirely to challenging plastic that flows into our waterways and oceans. That led us to become End Ocean Plastic.
So we created End Ocean Plastic
We brought together a team of community leaders, environmental advocates, and systems thinkers to build something that could outlast any one campaign — a permanent infrastructure for ocean plastic recovery.
We built a system
We work with local communities to collect, sort, and route plastics through an end-to-end recovery system. This ensures waste is brought back into the economy, while also inspiring dignified green jobs and long-term livelihoods across a network of coastal communities.
Meet our Team
Akshay Gunteti
Co-founder
Harsha Devadas
Partnership Lead
Our core philosophy
Systems over symptoms
What reaches the ocean is only a fraction of a much larger design problem shaped across industries and borders. Recovery is only meaningful when it connects back to how materials are created, used, and discarded in the first place.
Truth over claims
Environmental impact is frequently diluted by broad claims. So we ensure that our work is grounded in proof where transparency is not a communication choice for us; it is an operational standard.
Accountability in action
The ocean plastic crisis is shaped by a network of players across the system, from how materials are designed to how they are used, collected, and discarded. We work within this full chain, to make responsibility clearer and action more coordinated