Current Status and Prospects of Used Fishnet Recycling

Abstract

We, Refinverse, Inc., has pursued business in polyamide fishnets recycling since we established Ichinomiya Plant in 2019. Currently, we collect annual amount of about 300MT of used fishnets in cooperation with various stakeholders such as fishermen, fishnet maker, industrial waste disposer. The collected used-fishnet was firstly washed in our original process and then processed into pellets by melt extrusion. The recycled polyamide materials are mainly used for injection molding and reborn as automotive parts, construction parts, and agricultural machine parts etc. Nowadays, many fashion brands are very interested in the fishnet recycled fiber, and so we are developing the polyamide fiber made from used fishnet. We expect that the use of fishnet recycled materials expand with technological development and its application to various products as well as increase in the collection of used fishnets.