The PANGEA Movement is Launching Their Newest Product.

Mangrove sunglasses that clean up the planet.

Meet PANGEA: a Bali-based company founded by three backpackers who loved seeing the world but hated seeing it covered in trash.

The products they make go well beyond being carbon neutral: they’re carbon negative. Produced from sustainable or recycled materials, each product purchased helps to fund beach cleanups and river barriers in some of the most polluted areas to prevent trash from reaching the ocean. The plastic gathered by the river barriers is then recycled into new products.

So far, PANGEA’s flagship products include high-performance bamboo travel towels and an all-purpose adventure rain jacket. 

And this month, PANGEA is launching their newest product: sunglasses designed to save the mangrove forests. Each pair purchased removes 20 pounds of trash from the mangrove forests AND plants a new tree.

Mangrove forests absorb 4 times more CO2 than rainforests, making them a key agent in the fight against climate change. Right now, the trash is making it hard for them to breathe. In fact, 25% of mangroves worldwide have been destroyed in the last 50 years. With the proceeds from these sunglasses, PANGEA hopes to fund the biggest mangrove cleanup in history.

Not to mention, the glasses themselves are pretty cool. Because they’re made of recycled ocean plastic, each pair is unique in its coloring—which will make you stand out from the 500 million pairs of sunglasses sold every year in the US alone—all of which use new plastic, generate additional waste, and contribute to air pollution and greenhouse gasses.

You can order them on Kickstarter.