Upcycle Hawaii

Plastic given a honu life. 🐢♻️

These sea turtle bookmarks are cut by hand from fused marine debris rope — the same teal fishing line and coral monofilament that washed up on Hawaii’s coastlines. Each one is completely one of a kind, because no two sheets of melted rope ever look the same.

We think it’s pretty fitting that plastic pulled from the ocean gets shaped into the very animal that suffers most from it. The honu deserve better from us. So does our ʻāina. 🌊💚

Drop a 🐢 below if you’ve heard us make that joke before. And if you haven’t — now you have. 🤙🏽

🛍️ Find us at the Hilo Farmer’s Market — Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays at Mamo St and Punahoa St, or order via link in bio.

This is where it starts. 🌊

Teal fishing rope and coral monofilament line — two colors of marine debris pulled from our coastlines and sorted by hand in our Hilo studio. Before we can make anything, we have to unpack everything that the ocean packed in.

These aren’t just ropes. They’re years of exposure — sun, saltwater, sand, surf — all worked into every strand. And hidden inside them? More than you’d expect. 👀

This is the marine debris series. Follow along this week to see every step of what it takes to turn what washes ashore into something you can hold in your hands. 💚