Recycling derelict fishing nets is a volunteer-based effort in Hawaii to collect, sort, cut and crush the netting, then recycle it as fuel by delivering it to a waste-to-electricity plant.
"So far about 660 tons of nets have been sent to HPower since 2006, including nets that were dropped off directly for recycling and not recovered from the ocean. Even including the non-derelict nets, that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 4 million tons of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
The Great Pacific Garden Patch is such a formidable task that Project Kaisei plans to utilize robotic technology. Read More.
