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What’s Next: Trawling for Trash
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2011
Visitors lingering over an alfresco
meal in the French Riviera
fishing village of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat might be surprised to discover
that the catch of the day is
plastic trash. Since May, this scenic
harbor has been the pilot site
for a European Union Fisheries
Commission project designed
to protect declining fish stock
in the Mediterranean Sea while
also removing tons of plastic
debris from the sea.
The French government, supported by the European Union Fisheries Fund, pays for the fishermen’s time. Europe’s plastics industry provides special debriscollecting trawl nets (which cost from $23,000 to $57,000 apiece), and also picks up the tab for recycling and other costs...
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