Fishing nets hauled in to make new clothes and carpets

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Healthy Seas NGO to recycle 20 tonnes of recovered fishing nets and will extend project to Mediterranean and Adriatic seas

More than 20 tonnes of fishing nets have been collected from the bottom of the North Sea to be turned into clothes and carpets, paving the way for NGO Healthy Seas to extend its work to the Adriatic and...

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