Aquafil, a leading producer of Nylon 6 yarn, uses its ECONYL® process to turn the waste nets into 100% regenerated yarn.
We begin by characterizing the tensile behavior of both unconditioned and alkali-cured recycled nylon fibers obtained through manual cutting of waste fishing net filaments, with the aim of assessing the resistance of such materials to chemical attacks.
The word "zero" -- as in zero waste, zero net water use, zero toxicity, zero child labor, zero fatalities, and zero carbon -- will by necessity become a core part of business strategy and operations.
This paper discusses the utilization of recycle waste fishing nets in fiber reinforced mortar.
The recycled nylon (R-Nylon) fibers were obtained by manually cutting of waste fishing nets to the lengths of 20 mm, 30 mm and 40 mm.
Special attention is also given to evaluating the workability of fresh mortar and the possible impacts of contaminants released by waste fishing nets into the environment.
We investigate engineering applications of recycled nylon fibers obtained from waste fishing nets, focusing our attention on the use of recycled nylon fibers as tensile reinforcement of cementitious mortars.
This is still well under the US market, where solid waste management nets approximately $40 billion annually.
In nature, an ecosystem generates no net waste, as one species' waste becomes another species' food, with matter and energy transforming and cycling continually through the web of life.
Apparently 15,000 wasted peeps netting a little over 200 charges is not that bad at all.
