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Containerised Fishy Net Recycling System

This containerised fishing net recycling solution can double the amount of recycled nylon available to industry

December 2025

Containerised Fishy Net Recycling System

This containerised fishing net recycling solution can double the amount of recycled nylon available to industry

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date December 11, 2025
From United Kingdom
Maturity stage TRL 6 / 7 - Prototype demonstration 1:1

The world's commercial fisheries consume around 150,000 tonnes per year of nylon monofilament in the form of nets and lines. Most of it is buried or burned within a year of purchase, creating a long lived hazard or a new generation of pollution wherever that happens. The UN has identified a lack of recycling infrastructure as a causal factor for the low rate of recycling. We've invented and built a low cost, low energy, community scale recycling system that takes end-of-life nets and transforms them into a ready-to-use rae material, either for export or local manufacturing. There is a ready demand for this material from manufacturers seeking raw materials with certifiable high sustainability credentials. This recycling hardware is designed from the ground up to be containerised, deployable and in some configurations off-grid capable. We're solving multiple isses in one go; fishing net waste, high sustainability raw materials and local economic activity

The Environmental Benefits

  • Our solution is low energy and produces minimal CO2 emissions
  • Our process does not use any reagents
  • Working to nameplate capacity (50 tonnes per year) only 10 tonnes of CO2 equivalent would be attributed to the nylon recycled by our solution. In comparison 50 tonnes of virgin nylon production has an impact of 464 Tonnes of CO2 (Ecoinvent data)
  • We are disrupting Nylon 6 nets from being incinerated and therefore preventing further release of air pollution
  • 0rCA reduces waste streams by collecting discarded fishing nets that would otherwise go to landfill or incineration. These are recycled into new materials. This avoids using virgin nylon, whose production needs resource-intensive chemicals

The Financial Benefits

  • Our infrastructure could supply cheaper nylon at a lower capital cost per tonne
  • The carbon cost of that production will be a very small fraction that of new nylon production and the total natural captial cost could even be negative
  • Below 50,000 tonnes per year production capacity it is uneconomic to build new fully integrated nylon production plants
  • 50,000 tonne per year of new nylon capacity costs approx $400m in CAPEX, setting the minimum market participation bar

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Company Profile

0rCA®/Fishy Filaments Ltd

Specialist fishing net recycling technology that is designed to operate at a community scale

Headquarters Fore St, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5LD, UK
Type Company
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