SargaTech Global structures the complete sargassum value chain across Florida and Puerto Rico — from satellite monitoring to industrial market — under a circular economy model that provides certainty to governments, industry and investors.
Massive sargassum arrivals to Florida's Atlantic coast, the Keys and Puerto Rico's shoreline are no longer seasonal — they are a growing phenomenon threatening tourism competitiveness, public health and coastal ecosystems.
Without governance, sargassum generates rising cleanup costs, lost tourism revenue, environmental degradation and the waste of a resource with high industrial potential for both jurisdictions.
The current approach across Florida counties and Puerto Rico municipalities lacks coordination, traceability and market mechanisms. There is no structured value chain connecting collection with industrialization.
Florida and Puerto Rico share a common exposure: sargassum landing generates public health, tourism and real estate impacts within 48 hours of decomposition. Acting before landfall is the only strategy that preserves coastal value.
"We don't collect sargassum to clean it. We create the industry that makes collecting it profitable. And because it is profitable to collect it, we can guarantee it never reaches the beach — truly protecting Florida and Puerto Rico coastlines."
The logic reverses the chain: first we build the demand market and then, because sargassum has a price and buyer, we can finance its ocean collection before it reaches the coast. The answer doesn't start at sea. It starts in the market.
If sargassum has industrial buyers — alginates, bioplastics, biochar, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), biogas, biofertilizers — then it has a price. If it has a price, it is raw material. Seven valorization vectors and their operating vehicles create that market.
Buyers do not invest without volume certainty. They need contracts, physicochemical classification and traceability. The Sargassum Values Market (MVS) and the SargaTech platform turn biomass into a tradeable, bankable commodity.
With committed supply, ocean collection stops being a sunk cost and becomes the first stage of a chain with returns. SICRO-class systems (2.2 km barriers, 1,000+ t/day) operate before sargassum reaches Florida or Puerto Rico shorelines.
Sunk costs become participation in a circular chain: procurement benefits, environmental certification before Florida DEP / PR DRNA, meaningful cost reduction, and potential revenue from biomass sales.
The map below reflects our alliance strategy: an active industrial partnership with SargaTech / TSWL as the operational anchor, and a set of targeted collaborations we are actively pursuing with hotel associations, state regulators and federal science agencies.
Industrial architecture — Active partnership
Technology and operations backbone already in place: traceability platform, Sargassum Values Market (SVM) design, and industrial valorization know-how through The Seas We Love (TSWL).
Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association
Target sector articulation with hotel and restaurant mass across the Florida coast.
Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association
Target sector legitimacy across Puerto Rico and coordination with regional tourism boards.
Regulatory framework
Target engagement for state-level environmental permitting, coastal protection and circular economy alignment.
Satellite monitoring
Target scientific collaboration for real-time bloom detection and forecasting across both jurisdictions.
Federal coordination
Target federal outreach for water quality standards, offshore operations and interagency cooperation.
Protecting Florida and Puerto Rico's most valuable coastal destinations is not achieved with barriers and shovels on the beach — it is achieved by building the alliance that makes it economically viable to never let sargassum reach the coast.
Latest satellite evidence from the USF Sargassum Watch System (June 2026): 33.6M metric tons across the basin, with the Gulf of America nearly doubling its historical June record and severe beaching already reported on Florida's southeast coast. Sources: USF Optical Oceanography Lab, NOAA CoastWatch, Wang et al. (2019) Science.
USF Optical Oceanography Lab (Bulletin 06, June 30, 2026): total Sargassum across the Atlantic and Caribbean reached 33.6M metric tons — only 10% below the 2025 record, positioning 2026 as at least the second-largest Sargassum year on record.
Sargassum in the Gulf nearly doubled its 2025 historical June record. Severe beaching events are already reported along Florida's southeast coast, with additional impacts expected on the Panhandle in July.
The Eastern Caribbean — the primary transit corridor toward Puerto Rico — hit a record-high June level, driving continuous beaching across the Antilles and PR shorelines.
1st tropical bloom
1st major record — 8,850 km belt
Previous June record
Absolute annual record +72%
June basin total — 2nd largest year
* Accumulated as of March 2026. Sources: Wang et al. (2019) Science; USF SaWS Bulletins; NOAA CoastWatch.
SargaTech Global is the platform structured to articulate a comprehensive response to massive sargassum arrivals across Florida and Puerto Rico, in coordination with hotel associations, state agencies and federal partners.
The Value Ecosystem connects every link in the chain — monitoring, collection, pre-treatment, valorization and market — to transform sargassum from coastal waste into a traceable, transactable economic asset in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Institutional and strategic vehicle behind the broader sargassum circular economy model — investment, public policy, governance.
Technological and operational platform for management, contracting, traceability and biomass valorization.
Alliance transforming sargassum into biomaterials, packaging, tableware, agricultural inputs and other sustainable applications.
Supports the business, institutional and industrial framework to move from linear waste to circular value.
Documentary
Changing the tide — sargassum expedition
Integration with NOAA CoastWatch, USF Optical Oceanography Lab and Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) — near-real-time bloom detection, drift forecasting and landfall projection.
The SVM is the infrastructure that turns sargassum into a referenceable-value asset. It is not a speculative marketplace: it is a governance, traceability and certainty mechanism that enables investment, financing and structured commercialization of sargassum as raw material — designed to serve Florida and Puerto Rico stakeholders.
SargaTech Global articulates multiple profiles: suppliers, hoteliers, investors and the public sector. Each stakeholder has a clear entry point for structured participation.
Selection, certification and approval process for providers in comprehensive sargassum management across Florida and Puerto Rico.
View documentationSargaTech Circular Procurement Program: circular purchasing framework for the hotel sector.
Learn about programStructured transaction mechanism for sargassum as raw material.
Explore MVSResponsible management of sargassum as a resource, not waste — protecting Florida beaches, the Keys and Puerto Rico coastlines.
New productive chains, decent employment and industrial value across both jurisdictions.
Alignment with Florida DEP, Puerto Rico DRNA, EPA and NOAA regulatory frameworks.
Replicable model between Florida counties and Puerto Rico municipalities.
CEO — The Seas We Love (TSWL)
Ignacio leads the first comprehensive model for the industrialization of sargassum, coordinating cooperation among governments, the EU, multilateral banks (CAF, IDB Invest, IFC, EIB) and the hotel sector. Under his leadership, TSWL has driven the SargaTech platform — intended to become the first Sargassum Values Market — incorporating AI, blockchain traceability and carbon certification.
President & Partner — SargaTech Florida & Puerto Rico
CEO of Win Win Latin America, Karla has led communication, marketing, business development and strategic partnerships for global brands and national institutions. Multi-time Victoria Alada award winner, former President of AMAPRO and CICOM, and founder of Jungla Maya Orgánica and Jade Signature. Her role at SargaTech reflects a personal conviction: sargassum must be addressed with intelligence, responsibility and love for the planet.
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