Samsung are Recycling Fishing Nets for Phones

Disregarded fishing nets and plastic can pose a considerable threat to ocean wildlife and coral reefs and can do so for many years.

Around 640,000 tons of fishing nets are abandoned and discarded every year, this causes many problems, such as ghost fishing. Ghost fishing is when abandoned fishing nets continue fishing and damaging wildlife in the ocean without purpose. Collecting and repurposing these fishing nets is a great opportunity to help keep our oceans clean.

What is Samsung’s plan?

Samsung ensures that ocean plastic pollution is addressed in a way that has a positive impact on the environment and the lives of their users. They have an ongoing effort to eliminate single-use plastics and other eco-conscious materials.

To help solve these issues, Samsung have recently announced that they will be incorporating recycled plastic from disregarded fishing nets from the ocean when creating their new range of products and any future products they may create. They have developed a new material that gives disregarded ocean plastic and fishing nets and new purpose.

They are introducing this change with the aim to reduce our environmental footprint and create a more sustainable lifestyle for the Samsung community. By reusing this material, it clears the ocean of damaging plastic by giving it a new purpose.

This technological development shows a great achievement in the company to deliver environmental measures and protect the planet.

What are others doing?

Many other companies are also working towards solutions to this problem by looking at ways they can collect and incorporate old fishing nets in their products. Here are just a few of the other companies innovating this disregarded product:

Bureo

Bureo is a company that collects disregarded fishing nets and repurposes them into sustainable products such as skateboards, games, sunglasses, clothing and other cool gifts and gadgets.

Planet Love Life

Planet Love Life is a company who are creating a range of jewellery, such as bracelets and earrings using the nets.

Girlfriend Collective

Girlfriend Collective is a clothing company who collect disregarded fishing nets and repurpose them into a wide range of clothing items.

Pantagonia

Pantagonia is a clothing company who teamed up with Bureo to create hat brims and fleeces out of fishing nets.

United By Blue

This company have retrieved more than 1.5 million pounds of disregarded waste from the ocean and repurposed them into totes, shorts, and rain shells. They also introduced a “We Quit” program to remove single-use plastic from their supply chain.

 

Here at Rayda, we create products which are designed to last through plastic extrusion but we are also very involved with recycling and all of our products are recyclable. If you would like to talk to our team about our products and how we can help you, please contact us today.