Nofir hits fishing gear recycling record
Norwegian recycler Nofir last year broke its own records for recycling end-of-life fishing and aquaculture gear. In total, Nofir collected 10,298 tonnes of discarded gear from the fishing and aquaculture…
Hampiðjan maintains strong recycling throughput rate
The volumes of fishing gear routed for recycling by Hampiðjan Iceland has remained roughly steady in recent years. The 2025 total was 1229 tonnes. The 2023 figure was 1128 tonnes,…
New nets from old
Norwegian producer Selsøyvik Havbruk is using salmon cages made from recycled nylon – something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Trials have been in progress over…
Collaboration on producer responsibility for fishing gear
A subsidiary of the recycling company Nofir is being established to handle producer responsibility requirements which came into force on 1st January this year. Grønt Punkt Norge and Profa have…
Transforming waste into a circularity opportunity
With more than half of the world’s seafood now farmed, aquaculture play a critical role in feeding a growing global population. Yet as the industry grows, so do its environmental challenges. Fishing and aquaculture gear, built to be…
Recycled nylon put through its paces
For the first time recycled nylon derived from scrapped fishing gear and other sources is being put through rigorous full-scale sea trials. The recovered nylon has been used to manufacture…
Nofir breaks its own recycling record
Fishing and aquaculture gear recycler Nofir has broken its own record with its 2024 totals, exceeding the figures for 2023, was were also a record year. ‘Both we and the…
First net from reycled material in use
A consortium of companies in Norway and Iceland have made a reality of the first new netting to be put into use that has been derived from recycled fishing gear.…
Recycler fears EU regulations could inflate running costs
One of the leading recyclers of fishing and aquaculture equipment, the Bodø-based Nofir expects its work to become more complicated as new EU requirements come into force. ‘It’s well-intentioned, but…
Recycling deal alongside lice skirt production
Norwegian company Bio Marine is setting up production in Lithuania of lice skirts for the aquaculture industry, with a recycling collaboration with Nofir alongside this new venture. The necessary experience…
