A self-funding solution to ocean plastic.
We harvest river plastic from the world’s most polluting rivers and convert it into commercially viable shipping pallets. Revenue from the pallets funds expansion of the fleet — and of our impact.
How river plastic recycling works
Three steps. One closed loop.
1
Harvest
Capture plastic at the river mouth, before it reaches the sea.
2
Recycle
Process on-shore into SeaPal© shipping pallets.
3
Reinvest
Pallet revenue funds the next fleet, the next river.
The harvesting operation
Our initial fleet is purpose-built for high-volume river capture: ten 19-meter harvesting boats, twenty 19-foot skiffs with 115 HP motors, and two 180-foot landing crafts that gather harvested plastic and ferry it to our recycling center.
Each harvesting boat works with a pair of 150-foot American-made purse-string nets, dropped 26 feet below the surface, paired with a skiff and a 3,000-pound winch. Together, the fleet acts as a floating blockade across the river — leaving open lanes for commercial traffic, but catching the waste that would otherwise reach the sea.
The fleet operates 12 hours a day, 365 days a year. Target rivers carry approximately 200 tonnes of plastic waste per hour. The math, finally, works in our favor.
The recycling operation
On the riverbank, a four-acre processing facility sorts, shreds, and converts captured waste into injection-molded plastic shipping pallets. The site has option rights to expand to 120 acres as we scale. Operations are powered by an on-demand hydrogen generation system; harvesting vessels run solar for night lighting and stabilizing propulsion.
Year-one output target: 1,152,476 SeaPal© pallets from just 6 months of operating, generating meaningful operating profit in the first year of operation. These figures are based on a $25M investment with payments spread over 12 months.
Our market — and our edge
The global pallet market is enormous and underserved by environmentally responsible alternatives. Over 5 billion shipping pallets are manufactured every year. Ninety percent are wood. Nearly 60 million trees are cut every year just to make them — a fifth of all timber harvested annually. At current rates, the world will lose 25% of its forests within fifty years. SOOI sells into this market with three distinct advantages no competitor can match:
Western-owned
U.S. and European companies operating in China overwhelmingly prefer to buy from a Western-owned partner — especially one whose raw material is rescued from the rivers polluting the world’s oceans.
Truly nontoxic
Conventional plastic pallets, recycled or not, contain heavy metals — cadmium, chromium, lead, nickel, arsenic, mercury — from the polymers they’re built from. SOOI’s proprietary additive process neutralizes those metals to below detectable levels. No other plastic pallet on the market can claim this.
Sustainability story built in
Every pallet sold removes plastic from a river and saves a tree. For corporate buyers under sustainability mandates, that’s a story that writes itself.
Patented heavy-metal neutralization
Verified results
| Arsenic (As) | 99.999% neutralized |
| Cadmium (Cd) | 99.991% neutralized |
| Chromium (Cr) | 99.999% neutralized |
| Lead (Pb) | 99.998% neutralized |
| Mercury (Hg) | 99.990% neutralized |
| Nickel (Ni) | 99.997% neutralized |
Side benefits: pallets become structurally stronger and fire-resistant.
Built on proven technology
The SOOI process is built on proprietary formulas and methods developed by founder Ted Staley and his prior company, Eco Safe Solutions Ltd., over more than a decade of operating two licensed hazardous and toxic waste treatment facilities. Mr. Staley holds 12 international patents in the waste industry and is co-inventor on two more. The treatment science is not theoretical — it is the result of years of commercial-scale operation across municipal, industrial, hazardous, and toxic waste streams.
Growth model
Net profit from year-one pallet sales is reinvested in additional harvesting fleet, expanded processing capacity, and entry into the next river. By year three, the fleet operates across multiple sites; by year five, the model is self-sustaining at meaningful scale, and the long-term target of one million tonnes of plastic captured per year is in reach.
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Our complete pitch deck, business plan, and financial model are available to qualified investors and partners on request.