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FIL&FAB

Fil&Fab recovers end-of-life nylon fishing nets and produces Nylo, a polyamide 6 granulate recycled from fishing nets. The company works with several French ports in Brittany and along the Atlantic coast.

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FILIPECH

The FILIPECH project has taken two main actions: the establishment of the producer responsability organisation dedicated to the management of end-of-life fishing gear, and the carrying out of new experiments in four ports to test and improve the collection and recovery of used HDPE trawls

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Gravity Wave

Gravity Wave is a social start-up based in Spain. committed to combating marine pollution through a circular economy model.

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IFF Plastics

IFF Plastics in Co. Clare, Ireland worked together with BIM to investigate if retired fishing nets from ports could be recycled into a material to create products such as fence posts.

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Net360

Verifact, a software company, partnered with Novelplast, a recycling specialist, to enable full traceability of end-of-life fishing nets as they were transformed into commercially usable materials.

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Oyster Bag Waste Management

Studies and trials have been carried out on managing waste aquaculture gear, determining the feasibility of disposal of end of life gear through recycling and other systems in comparison to other disposal strategies such as landfill.

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Repescaplas

The initiative aimed at mitigating the impact of marine litter, particularly plastic waste, through its recovery, characterisation, and valorisation into useful products.

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