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Producers must pay to collect, transport and treat abandoned fishing gear

29/05/2018

Proposed changes to the rules surrounding abandoned fishing gear and other plastic products in the European Union could mean a boost for textile projects. As long ago as 2013, Aquafil pioneered an initiative to collect discarded fishing nets and transport them to its own sorting and depolymerisation plants in Slovenia to be recycled into new...

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