Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is ...

It started in 2018 when they began gathering used fishing nets off the coast of Vietnam. By 2020, the Taiwanese Marine Conservation Administration launched recycling programs to collect used fishing ...

These were trawling nets, made of nylon fibers up to four millimeters thick for hauling hundreds of fish at a time from the deep sea. Futtrup found Thyborøn's fishermen on Facebook and asked if ...

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the plastic could improve recycling By Chris Simms 10 February 2025 ...

The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) fined a group of fishermen after being caught using nylon fishing nets at a coast in the emirate. The EAD urged all fishermen to abide by laws to protect ...

Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is ...

Next, let’s take a look at the fishing industry, where nets used to be made from organic material that would break down in ...