Recyclable Plastic Fishing Nets Clean up Marine Litter

To address the issue of rising marine pollution, the European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC) has initiated a pilot project entitled ‘European Waste Free Oceans’ (EWFO). The aim of this project is to collect floating plastics marine debris and further to recycle this waste. For this purpose, the association has signed an agreement with Thomsea according to which they would use Thomsea’s trawling net for carrying out the clean up. In return, EuPC will help promote its use by EU’s fishermen.
The new trawling net, originally designed for use in controlling oil spills, is made of plastics and is 100% recyclable. A live display on the technique for gathering marine debris using the trawling nets will be presented by EuPC at their annual meeting on 20th May 2011. The project will be launched later this year post collection of required funds from the industry and will last for a maximum of 3 years.

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