ABOUT US

Making Ocean Waves. 

An initative working on waste management in remote islands and coastal communities.

This is how it began.

I combine two worlds: two decades as a corporate counsel in financial and corporate law, and hands-on ocean conservation work on Island in Honduras.

A lawyer by training, I traded boardrooms for coral reefs, bringing both on-the-ground experience and rigorous expertise to the fight against marine pollution.

A believer in the blue economy, building livelihoods from a healthy ocean, and certified in Solid Waste Management, Circular Economy, and Ocean Governance, I founded Making Ocean Waves to close the gap between community action and systemic change.

THE STARTING POINT 

A diving accident,

On March 15th, 2018, I had a diving accident. I nearly drowned.

The day after my accident, while recovering at hospital, I made three commitments to myself.

These commitments are a way to thank people who saved my life. 

THREE COMMITMENTS 

What I decided

I would do next. 

03

Build a humanitarian project

As gratitude to the people who rescued me.

WHAT I SAW ON THE GROUND

A small island
in the path of debris.

I focused my research on marine pollution in remote places. It became my topic.

I had been spending regular time on a Caribbean island that, because of its location, sits directly in the path of debris carried by ocean currents. I collected trash on beach clean-ups, week after week. I watched new debris arrive with each wave. I breathed the smoke from the open dumps.

Household waste was burned when the landfill was full. There was no other option in place. Across the wider Caribbean, neighbouring countries lack the infrastructure to process their waste, and a significant share of it ends up in the sea.

Marine pollution doesn't only affect the environment. It affects tourism, fisheries, and coastal economies, the things these places depend on. The cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of acting. That is the simple conclusion I came back with.

THE INITIATIVE

Making
Ocean Waves.

I launched the initiative Making Ocean Waves to support practical projects in remote places. We work with local groups to improve waste management, and to do it in ways that fit the place, not solutions imposed from outside.

The approach is straightforward.  Give marine plastic litter a second life as bricks, furniture, and everyday objects. Create local jobs along the way.

The three goals belong together: create jobs and empower people, protect the environment, and open up new recycling opportunities. None of them works without the others.

GET INVOLVED

There is no time to waste.

Even a drop in the ocean matters. Whatever brought you here, there's a way to be part of what comes next.