With this grant, mymizu will build and grow a stronger community of refill partners via community building and outreach, enabling tens of thousands of community members (largely Gen Zers and millennials) to kick the plastic habit, further raise awareness of ocean plastics, and step up the fight against single-use plastics in Japan and beyond!

Current Foods (formerly Kuleana) is creating the next generation of seafood with plants and biotechnology. After going through Y-Combinator's S20 batch and raising $6.5M Pre-Series A, Current Foods has products across the country with an initial foodservice focus.

"Coastal Mama" aims to reduce the use of plastic sachets in Pasaran, a small island in Indonesia, while helping women who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. First, they will do research to understand which single-use products/items are most used by households and local shops. Then, they choose 30 mothers on the island to participate in workshops on upcycling and initiating refill stations with local shops. People will pay for these products but they are cheaper than standard, less sustainable ones. Shop-owners (who are women) will get some portion of the profit.

Through this project, the University of Southern Mississippi Hub will conduct monthly cleanups during the academic year at polluted locations at or near bodies of water in the Hattiesburg and Mississippi Gulf Coast areas. The focus is on areas that drain into major rivers in the area. Collected waste will be tracked and reported to local interest groups.

World Saving Hustle's (WSH) is engaging their 600 members to continue their important campaign for a moratorium on deep seabed mining in Norway. In collaboration with WWF Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway, WSH will produce talks and articles, circulate 11 petitions throughout Norway, and make connections with at least 5 political parties to inform them about the issue and its impacts.

Founded in 2014, FlyWire provides technology to track what happens on an individual fishing vessel, such as where the vessel sails, where it fishes, what is caught, and how much, seamlessly capturing critical fisheries data at sea. Integrated hardware is installed on-vessel to monitor catch, handling, efficiency, and vessel performance using video, GPS, and other sensors throughout the fishing trip. When the vessel returns, data are uploaded to the cloud, then AI processes big data sets for human review to finally generate reports for key stakeholders.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Umi o Tsukurukai, the organization has proposed to conduct a clean-up in Yamashita Park, both in the park itself and underwater by scuba diving in the Port of Yokohama. Trash that is flowing out from rivers into Yokohama Bay will be collected, including very commonly found bottles and cans. When the trash is collected, the group will sort the items, weigh them, conduct a brand audit, and publish the results on the website. 

3 youths from 3 islands in the Thousand Islands (Tidung, Pari, and Kelapa Dua) developed technical skills and soft skills as they underwent online classes on climate change and website development. The 9 participants also gained direct experience in the conservation field by planting at least 1,000 mangroves and 150 seagrass across the 3 islands.

Sustainable Ocean Alliance's Youth Policy Advisory Council debuted the Blue New Deal, an ocean policy framework crowdsourced from the SOA global youth community on June 7th, 2021. This grant supported amplified impact and the call-to-action for public comment in order to enhance global engagement. Through press releases and media advisories, SOA YPAC is catalyzing a global discussion on the potential youth mobilization behind protecting our ocean and intergenerational justice.