Titusville entrepreneur creates fashion with fabric made from plastic waste
The Titusville entrepreneur has launched Sea Threads, a startup company dedicated to crafting clothing from 100% certified ocean plastics. A World Economic Forum-Ellen MacArthur Foundation report warned five years ago that the world's oceans may contain more plastic than fish, as measured by weight, by the year 2050. Cross, 24, earned a bachelor's degree in business and environmental studies from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2019. Shortly afterward, he established a base for Sea Threads at Groundswell Startups, a high-tech business incubator on U.S. 1 in south Melbourne. Sea Thre...