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Fishing Nets

Some facts...

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  • Old marine ropes can release more than 760 microplastic fragments per meter. 

  • Ghost Nets account for more than 40% of ocean plastic waste.

  • More than 6.4 million of marine debris is added to the world's oceans every year. Around 10% of which is lost or abandoned fishing gear.

  • 92.8 fish are caught per hundred square meters of ghost nets.

  • Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans.

  • There is now 5.3 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean and  46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.

  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas.

  • 88% of the sea's surface is polluted by plastic waste.

  • The world produces 381 million tonnes in plastic waste yearly – this is set to double by 2034.

  • Plastic microbeads are estimated to be one million times more toxic than the seawater around it.

  • Products containing microbeads can release 100,000 tiny beads with just one squeeze.

  • By 2050 the number of plastics in the sea will be greater than the number of fish.

  • 1 in 3 fish caught for human consumption contains plastic.

  • More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year..

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The current situation​

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Until now, marine waste disposal, such as mooring ropes has been neglected as an important factor contributing to our carbon footprint. 
The Shipping Industry traditionally disposes of their worn-off ropes in the next port visited – ignoring the actual disposal process. Conventional ropes are often thrown into the ocean, because they are currently considered non-recyclable, or otherwise incinerated, resulting in harmful greenhouse gases. At the same time, Ghost Nets are being left over or escape at sea; trapping and killing millions of marine animals while also severely contributing to the microplastics problem.

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https://www.condorferries.co.uk/plastic-in-the-ocean-statistics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721052323?via%3Dihub

https://earth.org/up-to-a-million-tons-of-ghost-fishing-nets-enter-the-oceans-each-year-study/

 Changing the mindset

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From collection to end-product, our primary concern is to contribute to a more sustainable future for our generation and the next. 
Due to the resulting plastic waste arising from the disposed mooring ropes and ghost nets we decided to take a bold step into repurposing these huge quantities of plastic fibers - in an effort to help our planet.

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Collection 

The journey begins from the collection points, where the used ropes are being disposed off from the vessel. We invite all members of the shipping industry to contribute on this project and choose recycling instead of uncontrolled disposal.

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Recycling of mooring ropes

We break-down the ropes by shredding in order to produce mixed plastic flakes, which depending on the condition, we either wash or deliver to the next step of the recycling process. We melt and extrude the shredded material into pellets with a mixed composition; same as the mix of the initial material components. Our recycled pellets of mixed plastic material are ready for the last step of our journey.

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Repurposing

Once they are broken down or in pellet form we process the mixed plastics with various manufacturing techniques in order to create useful plastic products made from 100% recycled material. Here our journey closes; having converted harmful waste to valuable products.

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