The Journal

Our Journal serves as an invaluable platform to Sealand. With important stories to tell, it allows us to engage with our community through compelling storytelling.

Model at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week with Sealand Bag

Sealand Gear Features at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town 2017

This past weekend (April 7th - 9th) was the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town and we are so stoked to have been part of it!! We teamed up with Mevrou & Co, Ballo and 2bop under the Fashion R...

Plastic hurdles in the palm of a hand

Plastic Seas

The invention of plastics has been one of the most wonderful and terrible things to happen to this planet. Currently, plastic pollution in the ocean is an enormous, increasing problem that we don’t...

Sealand Gear Upcycled Packaging Bags

Upcycling and Recycling: All The Way Through To Packaging

You look at the ingredients on your food packaging, you buy hemp clothing, and you become eco-conscious and aware. You’re on the bandwagon.  Championing recycling and upcycling and a life of non-wa...

Plastic packet floating in the ocean

The Future Of Pollution

Sealand Gear believes in minimising the output of waste material to landfill. In this process we find material that can have a second function as a usable product using the up-cycling process. We g...

Sealand Gear Ambassador Patrick Burnett Standing Next to wooden surfboard

Introducing Sealand Gear Ambassador Patrick Burnett

With the concept of making upcycled products from discarded yacht sails, truck tarpaulin, advertising billboard, ripstop and Bedouin stretch tent materials, who better to represent Sealand on the g...

Basket of Vegetables

The Green Economy by Brett Shearer

There is a significant shift happening. Across the globe there is agreement that the current economic model is unsustainable – on a planet with finite resources. The widening gap of inequality betw...

Sealand Gear Ambassador Sacha Specker

Introducing Sealand Gear Ambassador Sacha Specker

Surfer, bodyboarder, traveler, photographer and survivor. Time to see what makes Spex tick.   "Why not use what has already been used as does not need to be brand new" Photo credit_ Ayesha Specke...

Sacha Specker surfing a wave

Human Shoal vs White Shark involves Sealand Gear ambassador & founder

When someone shouts “shark”, surfers paddle to shore as fast as they can, right? Nooit bru, not when hardy Cape Town surfers are helping a mate. SPIKE from Wavescape spoke to a shaken Sacha Specker...

advertising banners being converted into bag lining in the Sealand cutting/material department

Waste Management and the use of Pretentious, Eco-conscious Terminology

We all know how to recycle. It’s common sense: extract from our waste that which can be used again. It applies to the very basics - glass, tin, paper etc and it is widely used, although not enough,...