Victoria, Seychelles (CNN) — Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one ...

Your high-performance outerwear might be made from old fishing nets. The ocean is brimming with trash. This much we know already. Each year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter ...

Recent conservation efforts have focused on proper disposal and re-use of old fishing nets. . File image Wildcoast, the Imperial Beach-based coastal conservation group, has partnered with an online ...

Over 1 million pounds of old fishing nets and lines from Alaska have made it so far to recycling markets where they are remade into plastic pellets and fibers. The milestone was reached with a recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you love what you do, as is case for Caitlin Townsend, advocating for fishermen by collecting old fishing nets, ropes and ...

Finding a net positive Roughly 48 tuna ships from several countries – including Spain, France and South Korea – fish the waters of the Seychelles, using massive nets that pull in more than 400,000 ...

The following article first appeared in POWDER's Fall 2024 print issue, 'Not Another Gear Guide'. Get a copy shipped directly to your home, or look for it on a newsstand near you. The ocean is ...