Nine billion husks are burned or abandoned as waste in the field every year in the Philippines alone. In Southeast Asia, Expanded Polystyrene foam (EPS, often marketed as “Styrofoam”) ice boxes dominate the fish trade and move millions of dairy products and leafy green vegetables from farms to central markets every day. Fortuna Cools' Coconut Coolers is replacing Styrofoam boxes with an all-natural, upcycled coolers made from waste coconut husks estimated to eliminate 50 tons of marine plastics during the two-year UNDP OIC implementation. Each Fortuna Coconut Cooler replaces a dozen disposable expanded polystyrene iceboxes, ⅓ of which by weight would have ended up in the ocean based on Filipino solid waste data.
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