Breaking recycling records
Fishing and aquaculture gear recycling company Nofir took delivery of 8212 tonnes of fishing and farming equipment in 2023. ‘Figures like these would have been virtually unthinkable just a few…
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Circularity breakthrough nominated for aquaculture award
The Circular Fish Farming Nets (CFFN) project in which nylon netting is recycled in a manner that maintains all of the strength and other qualities of virgin material is up…
High performance with recycled material
As the use of recycled plastics become increasingly widespread, producers have been making efforts to overcome one of the main drawbacks – that the qualities of recycled plastic are not…
Seeking a solution to seine rope disposal
Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF) is looking for applications for the NoK5 million it has available towards a two-year development of technology to reduce plastic waste from seine ropes. Plastic-based…
Pluto doors trialled in Spain
A pair of the plastic trawl doors produced by Mar Eco has been successfully trialled on board a coastal trawler fishing from l'Ametlla de Mar on the Spanish Mediterranean coast.…
Tracking down orphaned fishing gear
The volume of waste fishing gear shipped overseas from Iceland for recycling has roughly tripled in just a few years, from 758 tonnes in 2019 to 1685 tonnes last year.…
Patented methods have been developed to recover the copper used to impregnate aquaculture cages. Images: Nofir
Breakthrough in recycling aquaculture cages
Italian conglomerate Aquafil, owners of recycling company Nofir, have patented a method of recycling the netting used aquaculture cages, making it possible to recover copper impregnation for re-use. ‘The fact…
Reconditioned sounder buoys get a second life
Spanish technology company Satlink has launched Project ReCon, a pioneering circular economy programme designed to give a second life to Devices for Sustainable Fishing (DSF), and specifically to echo sounder…
Recycled trawl gear used in electric car production
Hampiðjan has placed a strong emphasis on the collection and grading of fishing gear, with recycling routes established for all of the materials used in fishing gears – with the…
Recycling fishing gear from Iceland
Norwegian recycler Nofir and Icelandic industry body Samtök fyrirtækja í sjávarútvegi (SFS) have struck an agreement for the recycling and further utilisation of fishing and aquaculture gear that has reached…