The SEARCULAR measures have the potential to extend life-cycle of fishing gear, prevent significant quantities of plastics entering the sea each year, and at the same time generate new material streams from old gears, facilitating the development of a circular economy for fishing gear
Old nets? New rope! A circular approach to tackling marine plastics
Combining research and industry expertise from across Europe, the EU-funded SEARCULAR project is trialling circular fishing gear solutions, which, if scaled up, could prevent thousands of tonnes of marine plastic…