Issued by 2023 Magazine

From sea to design : a second life for fishing nets

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AUTHOR : Théo DESPREZ, CEO and co-founder, Fil & Fab SAS

From student project to industrial recycling: that’s the story of Fil & Fab. Nearly 10 years after the initial idea, the ambition is to recycle all the nets used in French fishing. Long live circular fishing! Théo Desprez, one of the founders, explains.

Plasticulture Magazine : To begin with, can you tell us how the Fil & Fab project came about?

Théo Desprez : In 2015, we were four friends graduating from a design course with a project to design objects and furniture using disgarded materials that we wanted to recycle. We’re from Brest, and we were interested in the fishing industry, so we thought of used fishing nets, especially as nothing was being done in France at the time to recycle them. We liked the idea of making used nets into something useful and beautiful. Fil & Fab had no industrial vocation. It was in 2018 that the question arose, just as we were starting to get enough material. That’s when we decided to become recycling manufacturers.

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