At Ogyre, we are used to encountering marine waste in different contexts: out at sea through the work of local fishers who collect debris during their daily activities, and along coastlines where local communities remove waste before it enters the marine environment.

Since 2022, Luna Rossa has been supporting these efforts across Italy, Brazil, Indonesia, and Senegal. The collaboration began with a three-year commitment to collect 28,000 kg of marine waste and later expanded significantly. By 2027, Luna Rossa will support the collection of a further 280,000 kg—ten times the initial commitment—bringing the total amount to 308,000 kg of marine waste collected over five years. The installation of the Marine Bin in Cagliari adds a local and continuous action to this broader effort.

The Luna Rossa base in Cagliari is not just a technical site. It is a place where athletes train, boats are prepared, and the relationship with the sea is part of daily work. For a sailing team, water quality is not abstract. It is seen from the dock, crossed during training, and read through small changes.

Positioning the Marine Bin at Luna Rossa’s Cagliari Base complements the broader marine and coastal waste collection activities carried out in Italy, Brazil, Indonesia, and Senegal by adding a continuous, local action in the waters used every day by the team.

The idea took shape during brainstorming between Ogyre and Luna Rossa. On one side, the commitment was already active through marine waste collection carried out by Ogyre's fleet operating across various areas worldwide; on the other, there was a local ambition: to take action directly within the Cagliari base, in the same waters where Luna Rossa trains. In this context, the Marine Bin was identified as a solution capable of acting upstream in the pollution pathway, where floating waste is still sufficiently concentrated to be effectively captured by a localized system.

The Marine Bin operates 24/7 in the surface layer of the water, where floating waste is still visible and easier to intercept. Installed along the dock, it generates a gentle current that draws in floating pollutants while maintaining a wide passage for solid bodies , allowing plankton and marine fauna to pass through without harm.

Once the water enters the system, floating debris is retained inside a basket that allows the collection of visible pollutants such as plastic fragments, packaging residues, and other floating materials. The filter can also retain microplastics up to 2 mm, intercepting smaller particles before they disperse further into marine environments.

Furthermore, the Marine Bin also includes a reusable sponge, designed to absorb oils and hydrocarbons from water. This adds a second function to the Bin: not only collecting floating solid waste, but also helping reduce surface contamination from oily residues.

The Marine Bin keeps waste in a removable system, supports regular monitoring of the types of waste that appear, how often they accumulate, and under which environmental conditions.

The Marine Bin at Luna Rossa’s Cagliari base shows how ocean cleanup can move across scales. Large collection commitments remain essential where pollution is already dispersed in the sea and along the coast. Local interception is equally important where waste can still be captured before travelling further.

In this case, a sailing base becomes part of that chain. The dock is not only a departure point for training: it becomes a fixed point where floating waste is removed, observed, and managed.

Marine pollution grows through repetition: one object lost, one current carrying it, one fragment breaking into many. The response also needs repetition. A Marine Bin works because it turns protection into a daily mechanism, placed exactly where people meet the sea every day.