Watershed VS The Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses

We use DuckDB extensively where I work (https://watershed.com), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and analysis "online" queries. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Watershed (https://watershed.com), platform for enterprises to reduce carbon emissions. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Here's why I'm asking — Watershed, a new carbon accounting tool that recently raised $60m, was spun out of Stripe. Patch.io, an API-first offsets marketplace, has strong ties to Plaid. And Bend, a CO2e emissions data API that I'm working on, grew out of Abacus, an expense management app. Source: about 2 years ago

Your best bet with your current skillset (assuming you're more SWE-oriented) would be to join forward-looking startups and companies in the climate space. There's plenty of startups that are in need of engineers, and it would surprise you that a lot of them are relatively well-funded (e.g. https://watershedclimate.com/, funded by Stripe founders and Kleiner Perkins). Alternatively, you can probably join as a SWE... Source: over 2 years ago

There are software companies working on this already, checkout https://watershedclimate.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

Real answer: they recycle it into useable products. Source: over 1 year ago

It was this pair made from recycled ocean plastics where the proceeds were going to a company trying to clean up the ocean. This is the one time I've felt spending a good bit of money on sunglasses was worth it. Source: over 1 year ago

They did make and sell sunglasses out of it before but it looks like they're out of stock now. Maybe they'll make a round 2. Source: almost 2 years ago

The two organizations that are helping with this are Ocean Conservatory and The Ocean Cleanup. I don't know what the former does with the trash they remove but The Ocean Cleanup has been converting plastic they remove into sunglasses that they sell to raise finds: https://products.theoceancleanup.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

"recycled" as in over-priced blotchy sun glasses? Https://products.theoceancleanup.com/. Source: over 2 years ago