Healthy Seas A journey from waste to wear
The initiative The ‘Healthy Seas, a journey from waste to wear’ initiative aims to clean up the sea from waste, especially ghost fishing nets. Fishing nets are considered industrial waste, and we often pay for their disposal. For this reason, they are thrown away, abandoned or lost on the bottom of the sea, where they remain for hundreds of years and accumulate around wrecks. Fishing nets continue to trap and injure marine animals, sometimes causing them to drown.
Some data • According to a joint report by FAO and UNEP, there are approximately 640,000 tons of abandoned fishing nets in the oceans.
• Fishing nets represent 1/10 of all marine litter, but their removal can save thousands of marine animals.
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About us The initiative is a joint venture of three organizations: one NGO and two businesses that have joined forces to tackle the problem of marine litter.
THE DUTCH NGO PROVIDES THE KNOW HOW AND THE VOLUNTEER DIVERS, WHILE COORDINATING ALL AGREEMENTS FOR THE RECOVERY OF ABANDONED FISHING NETS.
THANKS TO THE ECONYL速 REGENERATION SYSTEM, THE COMPANY PREPARES AND REGENERATES THE NETS TO TRANSFORM THEM INTO REGENERATED ECONYL速 NYLON YARN.
TRUSTED SOCK-PARTNER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RETAIL MARKET, THE COMPANY IS THE FIRST WHO HAS PRODUCED HEALTHY SEAS SOCKS MADE WITH REGENERATED FISHING NETS.
The initiative
Where 3 PILOT PROJECTS • NORTH SEA Continuing last year’s operations. Holland and Belgium. • ADRIATIC SEA Italy, Slovenia and Croazia • MEDITERRANEAN SEA Spain
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Our results in 2013
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2013
For the latest information please read our posts in the MARINE PROTECTION section
2013 For the latest information please read our post in the PRODUCTS section
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Sharing is caring The ‘Healthy Seas, a journey from waste to wear’ initiative is an exciting project that finds its strenght in the storytelling shared with its clients and stakeholders. The initiative offers a concrete industrial solution to an environmental problem, also involving final consumers. For this reason we created the page what you can do where general public can find out how to concretely and actively participate to the initiative.
Contacts • Our website: www.healthyseas.org
• Facebook: Healthy Seas • Twitter: @healthyseas_org • Youtube: HealthySeas