What happens to the hard plastic recovered from an abandoned fish farm once the cleanup is over? – Until now, much of our circularity work has focused on fishing nets. But ghost farms leave behind many other materials too, including large HDPE (hard plastic) rings and pipes that once formed the structure of aquaculture cages.
In some of our recent cleanup projects, this material was already recycled locally into pellets and used to make new products, such as beer crates. Healthy Seas was not directly involved in that production process, however. This time, we wanted to take the next step ourselves: testing how material recovered during our missions could be transformed into a new, tangible object.
Together with a small London design studio working with recycled plastic, we carried out our first test to see whether HDPE recovered during Healthy Seas cleanup missions could become something useful again. Using existing moulds from the studio, we produced two simple objects: combs and carabiners…
Source: Healthy Seas Foundation
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