Around the world, most fishing nets are burned, landfilled, or dumped at sea, causing serious environmental problems.
200,000 tons of new fishing nets are manufactured every year, and they take more than 150 years to decompose.
More than 640,000 tons of fishing nets and traps are abandoned and discarded at sea every year.
These abandoned fishing nets account for approximately 10% of the plastic waste in our oceans
These abandoned fishing nets can become lodged in coral reefs and seafloor, causing damage to the seabed and harming approximately two-thirds of marine mammal species, half of seabird species and all sea turtle species.
If we start recycling them now, we can reduce the emissions that stress the climate and significantly reduce damage to marine ecology.
We collect abandoned fishing nets from coastal areas and farms. This can prevent new abandoned fishing nets from entering our environment, thereby purifying water quality and protecting organisms.
At the same time, we ensure that we use recycled raw materials made from 100% discarded fishing nets.
The Global Recycling Standard GRS is rapidly promoting the entire supply chain and solving the problems of plastic pollution and plastic recycling through a series of policy tools. By classifying, recycling, and reusing garbage, environmental pollution can be reduced and resources can be saved.
The waste raw materials we recycle include PA (Polyamide, Nylon, polyamide) PP (Polypropylene, polyene). Waste fishing nets collected from salvage are classified, dried, washed, crushed, washed again, dried and finally processed into recycled raw materials made of 100% waste fish nets.
In recent years, due to environmental issues, marine garbage has been optimized to restore abandoned fishing nets to their former glory, then turn them into particles, and finally stretch them into the finest fibers. Producing recycled feedstock does not require any new petroleum inputs and produces 49% less carbon emissions compared to raw materials.
And thanks to the technology of upstream material manufacturers and the support of big brands, abandoned fishing nets have also created high added value.
So discarded fishing nets are being transformed into clothes, rugs and accessories, showing how innovation can contribute to environmental economic and social sustainability.
