Keep existing material in use.
Work with reclaimed and recycled materials, develop more direct waste streams and reduce unnecessary processing steps.
What do you want your money to build?
We live in a world where almost everything is always available. Objects are produced in quantities that make them cheap to replace and easy to disregard. Their value often ends long before the material they are made from does.
Businesses are judged by how quickly they scale, how much they sell and how much profit they return. Less attention is paid to what their growth requires, what it leaves behind and who gets the opportunity to be part of it.
Small production runs struggle against volume pricing. Local manufacturing competes with systems built for scale. People who need a second chance often face the greatest barriers to receiving one. Materials with value left in them disappear into waste streams because no one has built the next use yet.
We believe these questions belong together.
Our vision
We want to prove that business can build more than profit.
Our vision is to build a design company whose success can also be measured by what it keeps in use, what it supports locally, what it restores and which opportunities it creates for others.
THE PRINCIPLES WE BUILD BY
These principles define what growth should make possible: not only more objects, but more value kept in use, more knowledge shared and more opportunities created.
Make fewer objects with more reason to exist.
Use limited editions to resist overproduction, endless repetition and the pressure to manufacture permanent volume.
Build more of the value closer to home.
Increase local production, assembly, sourcing and technical knowledge as the company grows.
Let every sale support something beyond the sale.
Commit 3% of revenue to tangible environmental protection and restoration.
Take responsibility where we live.
Support restoration and develop ways to participate directly through beach cleanups and material collection.
Create work for people often screened out.
Build roles, training and accessible entry points for people who face barriers in the conventional job market.
Help small companies act less small.
Explore collective purchasing, shared suppliers and combined orders so independent businesses can access better conditions.
Make materials and consequences easier to understand.
Develop school collaborations, workshop visits and hands-on experiences around waste, production and material reuse.
Where we are now
Some of this already shapes how we work. Some of it will take time.
Mocamar is still a small company. Several of these commitments require more capital, stronger partnerships and a larger structure than we have today. We are sharing them now because we want our growth to be measured against the direction we set from the beginning.
In practice now
- Limited editions
- Reclaimed and recycled materials
- Local assembly
- 3% of revenue committed to environmental work
- Traceable sourcing wherever possible
In development
- More direct material streams
- US-sourced reclaimed fishing nets
- School and workshop formats
- Beach cleanups and material collection
- More local suppliers and production partners
Long-term ambition
- Accessible employment pathways
- Shared purchasing for small businesses
- More local manufacturing
- Expanded education programs
- A larger network built around material reuse
The impact of your choice
Your choice does not end in your home.
3% of every sale supports the protection and restoration of Florida’s living coast. Your purchase also supports American manufacturers, independent suppliers and our work toward better uses for materials that might otherwise be discarded.
Every Mocamar object helps shape what we are able to build next: better material systems, more local production, new opportunities and a company whose success is measured by more than what it sells.