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Our Commitments
Sustainability
At TekStar Diving, we strive to ensure that our products have the lowest possible impact on our planet while retaining vital safety features and offering a long service life for our users.
We have worked hard with our designers and manufacturers to create a lineup of backplates, wings, and harnesses that combine excellent value with the highest durability and most advanced features possible.
Accordingly, our exclusive designs will give you many years of reliable service while eliminating the need for replacement due to redundancy.
Simply put, the TekStar modular dive system means that if you need to expand or replace something, you can do so with the minimum environmental impact.
However, that’s not enough for us, and we continue to push to improve sustainability further. We will introduce revolutionary recycled materials into our dive systems in the near future, further reducing TecStar’s eco-footprint.
Packaging
Packaging is one area where we’ve made a difference straight away.
Your delivery from TekStar Diving will come securely packaged in 100% recycled materials.
So, you can rest assured that not only will your new gear arrive safely, but you can also do your bit by recycling all the packaging through your local system.
Eco-Friendly Water Bottles & Sunglasses
See our exclusive range of water bottles and sunglasses to our “Helping the Ocean’s Heartbeat” accessory line-up. They come with the benefit of being made entirely from sustainable and/or 100% recycled materials.
Did you know only 9% of the world’s plastic is recycled?
Producing new plastic uses 14% of the world’s oil output, while plastic waste kills more than 1 million sea creatures annually.
So for our sunglasses frames and water bottles, we used recycled plastic recovered from the ocean.
These beautiful designs are not only recycled but have also contributed to cleaning our oceans. All without compromising style and functionality.
To top it off, the “Helping the Ocean’s Heartbeat” accessory line-up meets the Global Recycling Standard (GRS), which verifies the recycled content of products and the suitability of the manufacturing processes.
The process for certification is strict, and we’re proud that these ranges have met the grade.
Ocean’s Heartbeat Eco Water Bottles
Our Ocean’s Heartbeat Reusable Water Bottles are made from recycled ocean plastic and have specially-sourced bamboo lids and recycled rope handles to make them 100% eco-friendly.
Using repurposed ocean plastic helps clean up the marine environment that all divers love. In addition, you can be assured that our unique designs are completely hygienic and will have an incredibly long service life.
If that’s not enough, if you send TekStar Diving your old water bottle, we’ll make sure it’s recycled and even give you a 10% discount off a shiny new replacement.
Ocean’s Heartbeat Eco Sunglasses
The line-up of Ocean’s Heartbeat Sunglasses comes in a timeless frame design with a choice of two finishes.
You can pick from a classic frame made from 100% reclaimed ocean plastic or the ultimate in eco-friendliness, our all-natural, handmade bamboo wood frames.
Both designs are supplied with a bamboo storage case and a natural fibre protective bag to keep them safe and clean.
Bamboo is the perfect eco material for our frames and cases (and water bottle lids) as it grows at an impressive rate of over 1 metre a day.
As it does, it produces 35% more oxygen per tonne than regular trees and can critically absorb as much as 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare per year. It can also be recycled when needed.
All this means that using bamboo gives us products considered some of the most sustainable and eco-positive available anywhere.
Your eyes are protected, of course, as each pair of sunglasses comes with UV400 polarised TAC lenses that block almost 100% of the sun’s UV rays while improving visual clarity and reducing glare from reflective surfaces.
Ocean Blue Project - Every Purchase Cleans the Ocean
Using recycled materials and focusing on sustainability wherever possible isn’t the end of the story.
At TekStar Diving, our passion for looking after the world’s oceans extends to supporting the best ocean charities as we try to give back as much as possible to protect the wonders underwater.
We’ve partnered up with the Ocean Blue Project. This leading clean-up organisation is working to rehabilitate and conserve the world’s oceans, beaches, and rivers through clean-ups, stopping pollutants from entering ecosystems, community-driven learning and youth education.
Notably, the Ocean Blue Project has pioneered the removal of microplastics and other debris from the ocean and beaches using sand filter machines to prevent these invisible killers from accumulating in our marine life.
Every sale that TekStar Diving makes contributes to the work of the Ocean Blue Project by removing actual plastic pollution.
● Each recycled ocean plastic water bottle means 5 lbs of plastic will be removed from the ocean.
● Every pair of recycled ocean plastic and ethical bamboo sunglasses or scuba mask removes 10 lbs of plastic.
● Finally, each wing system purchased gets 25 lbs of plastic out of the sea.
We want TekStar’s footprint on the world to be as small as possible, so we are constantly looking for new ways to improve what we do and protect our planet.
We’re always moving forward by improving our designs and striving to ensure our products and packaging are made with the most sustainable and ethical materials.
With your support, we can help achieve a cleaner world, and the generations to come will be able to enjoy what the underwater environment has to offer, just like we have.