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Protecting oceans with Healthy Seas.
Partnering with Healthy Seas.
Hyundai is proud to partner with the NGO Healthy Seas. With our commitment to developing emission-free mobility solutions, and Healthy Seas’ expertise in protecting marine ecosystems, we share a vision for making the world a better place for future generations.
Our Partnership
Working together to help protect the oceans.
The world’s oceans play a major role in sustaining life on Earth, but they are constantly threatened. Hyundai is partnering with Healthy Seas to help remove plastic and fishing debris from the sea. A report by the United Nations estimates that more than 580 million kilogrammes of fishing gear are discarded in the ocean annually, accounting for one-tenth of all marine litter.
Our Activities
Hands on help: Healthy Seas’ activities.
Healthy Seas’ activities are threefold. They work with volunteer divers to recover abandoned fishing nets, known as ‘ghost nets’, from reefs and shipwrecks. Secondly, they organise educational programmes at schools to teach children the importance of keeping the oceans clean. Finally, they collaborate with fishermen and communities to prevent fishing nets from ending up in landfills or the sea.
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Photo credits: Cor Kuyvenhoven | Ghost Diving
Recovering fishing nets.
Hyundai and Healthy Seas work with volunteer divers from the ‘Ghost Diving’ charity to recover abandoned fishing nets from reefs and shipwrecks. These ‘Ghost Nets’ continue to kill marine wildlife underwater for decades. By removing marine debris, Healthy Seas ensures the survival of a healthy underwater ecosystem for a sustainable future.
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Photo credits: Cor Kuyvenhoven | Ghost Diving
Educational outreach at schools.
A further aspect of Healthy Seas’ efforts to protect the oceans is educational outreach. They organize educational programmes at local schools to teach children the importance of keeping the world’s oceans clean. In hopes of preventing more ocean pollution, younger generations learn about the negative effects it can have on marine and human life.
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Photo credits: Veronika Mikos | Healthy Seas
Collaboration with fishermen.
Healthy Seas collaborates with fishermen, fish farms, and local communities to prevent fishing nets from ending up in landfills or the environment. Together, they work on solutions to dispose of the nets responsibly.
From waste to wear.
From ghost nets to new products
Working with a network of partners, Healthy Seas helps recycle plastic waste into new materials in a circular economy. Reclaimed fishing nets and other nylon waste becomes ECONYL®, a regenerated nylon yarn that is used to make new products. This is important for Hyundai, as we plan to use it in our cars. A 1st step was made with the IONIQ 5, which can be ordered with floor mats made of ECONYL®.
