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18-06-2014

PRESS RELEASE – HEALTHY SEAS

ECNC Land & Sea Group, Aquafil and Star Sock

The European retailer Kaufland will be the first partner…

JOINT PRESS RELEASE – HEALTHY SEAS

On behalf of the ECNC Group, Aquafil and Star Sock

The Netherlands – The Healthy Seas initiative’s call for used and discarded fishing nets has brought in 15 tons of nets this summer. The salvaged nets are being stored in the first Healthy Seas depot in Scheveningen harbour, the Netherlands, and will be offered for recycling at the end of the salvage season.



In March this year, the Healthy Seas partners…

Aquafil (www.aquafil.com), the ECNC Group (www.ecncgroup.eu) and Star Sock (www.starsock.nl) have together established the ‘Healthy Seas, a Journey from Waste to Wear’ initiative.

The main objective of this Healthy Seas initiative is to remove waste, in particular fishing nets and other marine litter from the seas and oceans for the purpose of…

Based on its wide experience and expertise regarding business and biodiversity issues, ECNC has now launched the European Biodiversity Standard (EBS), an independent tool for companies to assess, upgrade and profile their biodiversity performance.



Biodiversity and ecosystem services are vital elements for a growing number of companies. Worldwide and in Europe, the integration of biodiversity considerations in business operations is receiving more and more attention, as shown by the…