Italian project turns fishing nets into ethical fashion
Risacca is an Italian project turning fishing nets recovered from the ocean into ethical fashion. The project aims to encourage ways of recycling waste from the fishing industry. The project is focusing particularly on fishing nets as these are highly detrimental to marine health and also tend to accumulate in patches in the ocean – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch being a well-known example.
The project originated in Mazara del Vallo in Sicily—a historic fishing port and one of Italy’s biggest fishing centres—where around ten tonnes of fishing nets are produced every year. At the project centre, people can visit the lab and create their own upcycled products with the machinery. The idea is to eventually create centres in every Italian port.
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