Acronym EUFIR
Category
Aquaculture
Title A European system for collecting and recycling discarded equipment from the fishing and fish farming industry Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Trud Berg Coordinator email trud.berg@nofir.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - Joint Stock Company for the Sale and Production of Chemicals and Raw Materials for Rubber and Plastics Industry (Hungary) ,
NA - UAB Egersund Net (Lithuania) ,
NA - UAB Nofir (Lithuania) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 1,419,413 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/304305 Summary "This project will establish a system for collecting and recycling discarded equipment from the fishing and fish farming industry in Europe. We will accomplish this by establishing a network of cooperating entities from the waste owners through the transporters and the dismantling sites to the recycler and other end users. The project is a joint venture between three parties, Norsk Fiskeriretur who has taken the initiative to this project and by that making their Norwegian business idea European, Egersund Net who is a fish farming net producer in Lithuania and the Estonian plastic recycler Dago Plast. These three parties have been cooperating for some time already.
Studies estimate that around 180 000 tons of plastic equipment waste from fish farming and fisheries occurs each year in Europe alone. 64 000 tons ends up at sea and only a small part of the rest are being recycled. One of the big environmental challenges facing the world today is the immense garbage patches of plastic floating around in the world's oceans. The size of the plastic soups in the Pacific Ocean alone is estimated to be twice the size of continental USA, and it is growing rapidly. The problems related to plastics are immense and our project aims to be part of the solution."
Keywords
Wastes;
Waste valorization;
Waste management;
Environmental impact;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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