The MARELITT Baltic project team welcomes you to Stralsund in Germany for a workshop on recycling of lost fishing gear. The topics will cover both end-of-life nets collected in harbours and derelict fishing gear retrieved from the sea:

1. Harbour reception facilities  
Collection of end-of-life and lost fishing gear

2. Pre-processing of nets for recycling
What needs to be done to prepare nets for different recycling schemes

3. Thermal recycling methods 
Hydrolysis & pyrolysis for contaminated lost fishing gears

4. Material recycling plastics from the Sea
Which materials can be used and how can consumer products be created from lost nets?

Dates: Wednesday 11th of April. Start 1 pm. – Friday 13th of April. End 11 am. 
Location: Stralsund, Germany

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The workshop is part of the MARELITT Baltic project and will be hosted by WWF Germany.

To register, please send an email to geisternetze@wwf.de. The number of participants will be limited.