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Marine waste "pform" high-end fashion

In the eastern part of Spain, a traditional fishing team roam in the blue Mediterranean Sea to catch cuttlefish, shrimp, marine fish and plastic bottles.

Since July this year, the fishing boats in Spain have been salvaging the waste plastics in the sea. The Spanish Company Ecoalf uses the waste from fishermen to produce high-grade clothing.

"We want to be used.

The first company to make fashion. "

Javier Goryenicia, 45, President of Ecoalf company, said (Javier Goyeneche).

According to Agence France-Presse, the company founded in 2010 has launched a new generation of clothing and accessories brand made of plastic bottles, old fishing nets and tires.

The company currently has 18 employees, and this year's annual output value will reach 4 million 500 thousand euros (about 31 million 300 thousand yuan).

Not long ago, the "new generation" was stationed in British high-end department stores, Harold and New York's bloom Dyer department store.

Ecoalf became the first company to manufacture marine waste.

The company signed a contract with 200 fishing vessels in Valencia, and asked local fishermen to salvage the rubbish at sea.

"What others see is junk, and what I see is raw materials."

Javier said.

According to him, recycled plastics will be crushed, flattened and boiled, and then automatically sorted by machines to become the raw materials for making garments.

In just a few months, fishing boats have recovered two tons of waste plastics and two tons of other rubbish.

Jos Ignacio, chairman of the Valencia fishermen's Federation (Jose Ignacio), said the fishermen did not receive any compensation from them.

"In the eyes of ecologists, we are saboteurs, but at least we are doing the right thing to clean up marine trash."

Ignacio strongly supported Ecoalf's approach.

His father, grandfather and great grandfather were fishermen. The old fisherman who had worked hard for 19 years at sea said that every time he went to sea, he habitually filled up Ecoalf's container for recycling rubbish.

"Fishermen used to say," this is not mine, and then throw rubbish into the water, but today we don't even throw a piece of paper into the sea. "

Ignacio said.

Now, he and other fishermen will remove the fish, shrimp and crab from black silt after collecting the nets. Recently, only a few rubbish has been found in the net.

"This is because we have cleaned up a lot from the sea."

He said.

According to an international report released in February 2015, the world's 192 coastal countries have reached an astonishing 8 million tons of plastic waste discharged into the ocean every year.

Garbage includes all kinds of imaginable plastic products, such as shopping bags, bottles, toys, food packaging, fishing gear, sunglasses...

Some rubbish is eaten by marine organisms.

Plastic waste has been found in the belly of Mediterranean fish and birds.

"Turtles are particularly vulnerable, and they may die from intestinal obstruction after they have eaten plastic bags into their tummy."

Gil, veterinarian of Valencia animal protection center, said Xema Gil.

The technology of making clothes with waste is expected to solve the increasingly serious rubbish problem in Spain.

"4 million tons of plastic bottles are discarded every year."

Gabriel Buldu, the business director of PET, the largest garbage recycling company in the country, says plastic waste has become a social problem.

Ecoalf said that although marine and land plastic wastes could become clothing.

But their raw materials are marine waste.