When the fishing boats enter Hawaii into the harbor, you have not only plenty of fish in the bow. Thanks to a sustainable initiative, seafarers collect as much as possible fishing nets. This and other good examples in the fight against the pollution of the oceans show how the problem can be addressed.
The FAO Report, as well as the UN itself, estimate that now ten percent of the million tonnes of plastic waste in the world’s oceans are made up of fishes. This is not only a bad thing for the environment, because even for ship screws these nets thrown overboard or torn off can become an expensive danger. According to estimates, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) alone amounts to 300,000 animals annually in the number of fish sewers per year.
The NOAA Marine Debris program against plastic waste in the sea has now turned to the task of fishing as many fishing nets as possible from the sea. The nets that the fishermen’s fishermen are gathering themselves do not even come from their fishing. They enter the sea somewhere else in the Pacific Ocean and make their way to their fishing grounds thanks to the currents. At the port, the fishermen throw the nets in specially designed containers. And the authorities make a virtue out of necessity. If the nets would land elsewhere on the dump, this is different in Hawaii. In the “nets to energy” program, the networks are finally combusted together with other garbage in a modern combined heat and power plant.
Also on the coasts and beaches of Hawaii are diligently gathered old networks and this same from different organizations, ranging from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund to the surfer organization. The 100 tonnes of fishes collected annually provide so much energy that 43 households can be supplied with energy all year round.
Other initiatives: Fishing for Energy and ECONYL
The “Fishing for Energy” initiative was also launched in 2008 in the USA. The goal is to get as many nets from the sea as possible on all shores of the USA. Energy is also gained from this. The rule of thumb: From a ton of saved fish nets, as much energy as an average household is needed in 25 days.
The Italian company Aquafil has also adopted the fishing network problem. The company handles thousands of tons of plastic waste each year into nylon. The end product for carpets or pantyhose consists of 100% recycled materials, thanks to a special technique, the ‘Econyl® Regeneration System’. It is not only based on conventional plastic waste, but also on fish nets, which are used in a global network. The company not only actively contributes to environmental protection, but is dispensing with 70,000 barrels of oil annually in its factories, which, in turn, significantly reduces CO2 emissions.
Nice actions to eliminate the plastic waste and just the dangerous fishing nets in the seas, which are likely to make school worldwide.
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