My Favourite Fabric and How it's Helping the Planet

I literally jumped for joy when I discovered this fabric (ECONYL) - finally a sustainable fabric that is helping the environment and let me explain why…

Did you know approximately 640k tons of fishing nets are discarded in the ocean each year, making up one tenth of all marine waste? These nets stay in the sea and affect the sea ecosystem for hundreds of years, becoming deadly for whales, turtles and other sea creatures. Millions of marine animals are killed by these ghost nets every year.

HEALTHY SEAS are a company who send teams of divers down to collect ghost fishing nets from six sea regions (the North, Mediterranean, Red, Baltic and Adriatic Sea as well as the Pacific Ocean) as part of a sea clean

up campaign. In 2020 alone they worked with 200 divers and 950 fishermen and collected 75,000kg of fishing nets that would otherwise be harming the sea environment. Since founding in 2013 Healthy Seas have collected 585 tons of ghost nets, preventing thousands of sea creatures from being trapped and ensured that the waste nets become a valuable resource.

AQUAFIL are a company who use these ghost fishing nets and transform them into regenerated nylon called Econyl. It's exactly the same as new nylon only made from waste (that is otherwise harming the earth) and can be recycled, recreated and remoulded again and again. It's all part of the Econyl brand vision to make the world a better place by pioneering circular regeneration processes and delivering sustainable products.

This means that by using Econyl we can play a part in cleaning up environments instead of destroying them. It's all part of living a planet-friendly circular lifestyle.