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®

REGENERATION SYSTEM,

THE COMPANY

PREPARES AND

REGENERATES THE NETS

TO TRANSFORM THEM

INTO REGENERATED

ECONYL® 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

Discover the pilots

Our results in 2013

DOWNLOAD

THE FULL .PDF

DOCUMENT

HERE

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

2013

Some products

Our partners

Associate Partner

Member

Associate Partner

Donor

Partners section

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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