WE ARE STRANDET
Thy is where we live and where the sea, the waves and the grandeur of the nature is our playground, and inspiration.
Our Mission
To keep the beaches along the west Coast, free of plastic and put the focus on plastic pollution locally as well as globally.
When we go for a walk along the beaches or surfing in the waves, we see worrying amounts of plastic waste. Therefore, it has become our mission is to remove plastic waste and create awareness around the challenges of that plastic ends up in nature.
Anne Julie Müller
Owner & project manager
Julie is the founder of the STRANDET, and in addition to having the responsibility for the coordination and business development geeks Julie with figures and CO2 accounts. Julie is trained environmental geographer and has worked with sustainable business development, green growth and plastic pollution both in a local and global perspective.
Jens Wilhelm Jørgensen
Owner & head of communication
Jens graduated Cand.International negotiation. and has a background as campaign project manager at Danchurchaid. Jens is strong in communications and burns, and to disseminate knowledge about the plastic issue. He is also responsible for product development and ensures that the ocean plastic is recycled into valuable new products.
We make active efforts
for the environment
In 2018 STRANDET was founded on the basis of our shared desire to make an active and local efforts to focus on ocean plastic pollution. In easter 2019, we officially opened STRANDET, where the old gas station in Nørre Vorupør was turned into ocean plastic workspace and coffee shop.
The first thought was actually done a long time before, and are far from Thy. Namely, in 2014, in Rwanda, where Julie worked. Rwanda was the first country in the world, banning all forms of plastic packaging, which introduced both the national cleanup days and the sorting and recycling of soft and hard plastic. A scrupulously clean country in the middle of the piles of unhandled waste – it left a great impression and got the ideas for the STRANDET to germinate.
Julie returned to Denmark inspired with a feeling that we had to do something about the amount of plastic lying on our beaches – an idea that Jens was all for. The idea of making a difference, even in small ways, has since been a central part of STRANDET and our approach to minimizing plastic waste in nature.
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Communication partner Thy National Park
IN STRANDET we communicate about the human impact on our vulnerable nature. We have a special focus on the nature in Thy and are therefore approved as a communication partner in Thy National Park.
