Three young entrepreneurs based in Plougonvelin, near Brest in Finistère (Brittany) are transforming abandoned nylon fishing nets into sunglasses.
Their company, Fil & Fab, use bales of damaged nets otherwise destined for a skip, to be burned or buried (at great environmental cost), with up to 2.5tonnes said to be dumped every week. They first untangle the nets to ensure they do not mix up the required polyamide with other plastics.
Using paintball guns, in early June they fired female pheromone-packed capsules onto trees in order to disorient males, thus reducing reproduction rates by up to 90%. In total, around 1,500 capsules were fired onto 150 trees throughout the city.
We break down the fishing nets into small fibres, which allows them to be put to into the granulator. It then makes a large paste, from which we can extract granules
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