Discarded fishing gear becomes new household product line
Orthex, a Nordic producer of household products based in Espoo, Finland, is not afraid of trying something new.
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Orthex, a Nordic producer of household products based in Espoo, Finland, is not afraid of trying something new.
Orthex is part of a value chain that produces raw materials from recycled plastic by collecting old fishing nets and ropes from harbors in Scandinavia, in the UK and in Northern Europe. The collected material is sorted, cleaned, shredded, and extruded into raw material pellets, from which the Orthex’s bucket, bowl and scoop products are made. The raw material is said to have
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