[1] Before founding Parley for the Oceans, Cyrill Gutsch worked as a designer for companies including Lufthansa, BMW, and Adidas.

[3][4][5][6] In December 2020, Vogue reported that they had manufactured "tens of millions of sneakers made from Parley Ocean Plastic".

[9] Parley for the Oceans, along with JetBlue Technology Ventures and Toyota Ventures, is among the corporate investors that have invested $40 million in the Air Company, a carbon negative vodka distiller and perfume and hand sanitizer manufacturer that uses heterogeneous catalysis to convert captured carbon into ethanol.

[10] Parley for the Oceans' "AIR" strategy calls for Avoidance, Interception and Redesigning of the sources of plastic pollution.

[9] The AIR pledge led Adidas to end the use of single-use plastic in its offices and Porter magazine to commit to plastic-free subscriptions by 2019.