LONDON|IBIZA SEPT 2020: Creating a world first with their Hannah Warner jewellery collaboration, UK plastic waste solution platform Orca Sound Project has received a wave of online support from celebrities including project ambassador Jaime Winstone, DJ Jamie Jones, model Clara Padget and designer Kyle De’Volle for their latest cleanup campaign. The initiative will raise awareness of the ocean plastic waste crisis.

The collaboration features three exquisite collections of jewellery made from collected ocean plastics. Designed by Warner and Orca Sound Project, the range has been supported by a plethora of celebrities on social media including DJs Damian Lazarus, Archie Hamilton, wAFF, Nick Yates, singer Melanie Blatt, designer Kyle De’Volle, model Clara Padget and model/DJ Mary Charteris, Influencer Alex Mytton and more.

The hW x Orca Sound Project jewellery range will channel funds into their ongoing cleanup and upcycling activities in a mounting quest to preserve the earth’s oceans against a diminishing timeline, including the Balearic island of Ibiza.

The figures from Ibiza make for truly dismal reading. In 2019 alone the island generated half a tonne of waste per person, 14% higher than the rest of Europe with only 5 years of landfill space left and no localised plastic recycling facility. In 2020, pre lock-down with their eco partners Casita Verde, Orca Sound Project collected a staggering 1.5+ tons of plastic from Ibiza.

Profits from sales of the three ranges will have an immediate and very tangible effect on the island. With Orca Sound Project’s ability to turn 100% of collected plastic waste into circular building materials, the team will turn the plastic into a government lead campaign which will be on display in the airport, with a mission to raise awareness whilst encouraging Islanders and its visitors to be more responsible about their actions and footprint on the island

After successful campaigns with Nike x Asos, London Fashion Week, Glastonbury Festival, Ultra Music Festival, ADE, IMS and other world-leading brands and artists, Orca Sound Project has become one of the most recognised up and coming names in marine plastic waste solutions. Engaging new communities with direct calls to action, they have effectively managed to tap into a growing audience of conscious consumers looking not just to buy but also to affect change with their purchases and their choices.

Jolyon Klean, founder of Orca Sound Project, said: “We are committed to supporting the preservation of Ibiza and inspiring ongoing conscious living and tourism on the island. We are proud to be collaborating with our good friend and design visionary Hannah Warner. Each piece is totally unique and represents our community’s desire to create positive change. This jewellery collection is a visual expression of our collaborative responsibility to live more consciously and protect our oceans.”

Known for her exquisite ranges which have adorned the likes of Rhianna for Vogue China, Alice Dellal and Tati Compton, Hannah Warner has created three separate lines for the Orca Sound Project range, each carrying at its heart upcycled microplastics collected from previous beach cleans on the no-longer-pristine beaches of the Balearic island.

“All of us are aware of the dangers our planet is in,” she commented. “When the Orca Sound Project team showed me the staggering statistics of Ibiza’s waste problem and the time it has to create change before it’s too late, there was no hesitation for me to get involved in a creative project with them collaborating with their process of collecting and compressing waste plastic and reusing it to make wearable pieces of jewellery. Every consumer of each piece of the collection will be helping towards the cause.”

The hW x Orca Sound Project Ocean Jewellery Collection is now on sale at https://www.orcasoundproject.com/ocean-jewellery-collection For more information on Orca Sound Project please visit www.orcasoundproject.com. To see Hannah Warner’s full range of jewellery design, go to www.hannahwarner.com.