The planet and the people using it come FIRST.
The business was built around it, not the other way round.
We turn compliance into a business model.
Putting the planet and the people first only holds if the business can survive doing it. Compliance is where it survives. Normally it is a cost: a company proves what it did because the law says so, assembles the paperwork by hand, and gets nothing back for it.
One unit takes pollution out of one place and measures what changed. The pollution stays out. The measurement is the proof, so the run that satisfies the regulator is the same run the business is paid for.
The measurements add up, site after site, into the record of how much harm has been removed. For the people on the other end of it: the ones who eat what left the line, and live where the water goes.
Four field tests, and what each one showed.
The field work so far: what each piece was built for, what it was meant to show, and what it showed. The numbers below are not ours.
The REMEDIES film from the Koper demo site (2 min 24 s). RTV Slovenija's Slovenska kronika also visited Marina Izola during the pilot; that report is in Slovenian.
What we built: Silicon carbide membrane with ozone, on the water leaving a boat-washing quay.
Why: The wash water meets every standard and still carries microplastic to the sea. No rule asks anyone to stop it.
Goal: Hold the microplastic back before it reaches the sea, on a real quay, with real boats.
What it showed: 99.5–99.6% of the microplastic was held back, as measured by consortium laboratories under REMEDIES.
What we built: Sand filter, activated carbon, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis on an industrial laundry, with flow meters on every stage.
Why: An industrial laundry sends microplastic fibres and a lot of water down the drain.
Goal: Clean the wash water and send it back to the machines. The system is designed to return 70%.
What it showed: Ten wash cycles on three machines put 1,401 litres through the unit. The returned water had hardness under 1 °dH and TDS under 20 mg/L. 42.2% was metered back to the machines, which understates the real figure, because treated water was still in the buffer tank when the session stopped. Inlet and outlet fibre samples were counted by Wasser 3.0 gGmbH in Landau.
What we built: An underwater drone with a pump and a filter module that takes sea-water samples, with the filtered volume measured by a flow meter.
Why: Microplastic in the sea is hard to sample in a repeatable way, so it is hard to compare one place with another.
Goal: Show that a drone can do the sampling to a written protocol. The protocol was written by the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC).
What it showed: The sampling campaign at the Sinis Peninsula was coordinated with the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Each deployment filters about 60 litres, the filtered volume is a measured value, not an estimate, and the retained particles go to the laboratory for identification.
What we built: A commercial underwater drone (FIFISH V6 Expert) flown from the surface on a tether, with its camera recording the sea floor and the place of each recording.
Why: Large litter on the sea floor is out of sight from the quay, so it is rarely looked at.
Goal: Show that a drone can survey the sea floor of a harbour and spot large litter, with every recording tied to its place.
What it showed: Field operations were carried out by the partner You(r)Sea. The drone was shown working to stakeholders at the REMEDIES Open Day at Marina Izola on 18 March 2026.
The water at Marina Izola meets every standard and still goes to the sea.
Better engineering will not fix that one. It is a rule that was never written — the petition is open.
What the petition asks for →One unit, two results: the water is cleaned, and the measurement stays.
Discharge limits, water reuse rules and retailer standards set the date. We start from the rule that applies to the site, not from our product.
Each unit holds back microplastic or cleans wash water on site, before it leaves.
Each unit is metered, so what it removes is measured on a real quay or a real laundry line.
Samples are counted by partner laboratories, not by us. Marina Izola is measured under REMEDIES, and Fiume Veneto samples were counted in Landau.
The measurements add up, site after site, into one record.
We got used to poisoning things a little — quietly, everywhere, all the time.
So we filter and measure what leaves with the water, and push for the law that lets clean water be used again.
Two problems, one habit: we accept what is left behind as the price of the job.
Every step made sense when it was designed. That does not make pollution the price of the job.
Every wash cycle sends plastic fibres out with the water. They come back in the fish on the plate, and they do not leave the sea again.
The Slovenian coast has summers when water is rationed. Water clean enough to drink runs into the sea while the taps are being watched.
The sea part we hold back with a unit that also records it. The water part needs a rule before anything can be recorded at all.
Two parts, one rule: remove the pollutant where it is made.
Catch what the water carries before it reaches the sea, and make the catching pay for itself.
Membranes hold the plastic back, sensors read the metals as they pass, software warns early. The same sensors that run the treatment are what produce the numbers an operator would otherwise have to commission and wait for — the measurement is not an extra step, it is how the unit works. Running today at our sites and in our EU projects.
Part of this is not a technical problem. It is a law that was never written.
At Marina Izola the water meets every standard and is thrown away. Regulation (EU) 2020/741 applies directly, but Slovenia has not adopted the national implementing rules it needs — permits and risk-management plans — so there is no route to a reuse permit. Here the proof is not the problem: the water is measured and it passes. There is simply nothing to prove it against. A region short of water loses it every day, and no membrane fixes that, so the petition stays open.
Tighter limits on what leaves a plant set a deadline the market cannot argue with.
Retailers raise their standards faster than the law does, and the rules below are already in force or have a date. Waiting is the only choice with a fixed price.
The same clock runs on the water that leaves. Discharge limits and reporting duties are tightening, microplastic is moving into monitoring rules, and a plant that cannot show what leaves it will be asked to.
Regulation works both ways for us. It opens this market, and at Marina Izola it also blocks the last step. That second part is Line C.
Each tightening rule on discharge and reporting moves the work from monitoring pollution to removing it. That is the same direction every rule above points in.
Two rules, one direction. What happens if a company waits.
Dates and limits as they stand today. The direction has never reversed. Every figure carries its site and the laboratory that measured it.
Who sets the deadline. Discharge and reporting rules already apply, and retailers move faster than the law.
The planet and the people using it come first, and the company is built so that this order cannot be reversed.
Nobody decided any of this, everybody got used to it. Removing it is the work, and reporting on it is not a substitute. So the reason survives growth and investors, it sits in the ownership documents.
By the end of 2026 the purpose will be written into the founding documents, so that changing it needs a large majority. An advisory board of users, demo hosts and research partners is committed and still to be constituted. The reinvestment policy is in drafting, against a standard of 51% of profit.
Impact and financial reporting start with the first full year of operation, with the method next to the number. A certification route is chosen and not yet certified. What is already in force: removal, life-cycle and water-quality numbers come from partner laboratories. Nothing here is called certified if it is not.
Published while it is still incomplete, because the order matters more than the state: the removal is in force and measured by others, and the structure around it is being built to match.
Four parts that already work, and where each one sits.
Plastic in the sea, made by a process nobody built to harm anyone.
Demo hosts work with us: they set the problem, host the measurement and read the results with us.
Towns on the Slovenian coast order the work. The company was built in Koper, not moved there.
The data is an impact tool as much as a business tool.
How we hold ourselves to them
B works on 6 and 14, C on 6. Together they add up to these two. Each goal is tied to something we install, not to a promise: water clean enough to reuse and plastic stopped before the sea.
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What we are building next.
A reactor that makes hydrogen peroxide on site, so a line no longer has to store and transport it, and the same run writes down what it did. In development. It is not installed at a customer yet.
If plastic or metals leave your site with the water, we would like to hear what holding them back would take.
Producers, packhouses, laundries, marinas, treatment plants and research groups. A first talk needs a site description and a water analysis, nothing more.
Rule changes that affect your line, before they affect it.
Discharge limits, water reuse rules, retailer standards and audits: what changed, what it means for a line, and when it applies. A few times a year.