I recently came across the company Dorsal and was instantly intrigued! After getting in touch with CEO and alum of The College, Chad Ross, here's what I've learned about this excellent company.

It all started with Chad and Dylan, two Bio majors at the College of Charleston. They began to realize all the pollution and trash in the ocean around them. Wanting to fix this issue, they began to collaborate with their classmates to see who was willing to help.

Chad and Dylan came up with the idea of bracelets! The design is unique and represents the ocean, and it's aquatic life. While purchasing and wearing these bracelets helps bring attention to the issue of ocean pollution, one purchase goes a lot further than this. For every bracelet bought, 1 pound of trash is cleaned from the ocean.

The bracelets show how easy it is to make a difference — we are all able to help with this cleanup process. The company started in July of 2018 and has already sold 154 bracelets which means that 154 pounds of trash have been removed from the ocean! This is only the beginning; the company has the goal to lift 100,000 pounds of trash total.

Cleaning up our oceans is a team effort but with these bracelets, making a difference has never been easier. These bracelets are not only fashionable; they're changing the world. Who would want to live in a world with no swimmable oceans or no oceans at all?

I admire Chad's goal to fix a problem he sees in the world. Too many people ignore problems and hope someone else deals with it, but not Chad. Chad tackled the issue head-on and is now making a real difference. We're all in this together, we all live on the same earth. Let's work together to take care of it.