BlueCycle

BlueCycle is a blue and circular economy initiative that reuses marine plastic waste generated by shipping and fishing activities, turning abandoned gear into a new, high-quality material suitable for re-integration into industry.

The programme began in 2017, when the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation teamed up with the architectural duo The New Raw to raise awareness of abandoned fishing nets. Its material comes from marine and coastal clean-up projects, from collection stations run with Aegean Rebreath and from a network of fishing equipment suppliers, and is processed at the BlueCycle Lab in Piraeus, which also runs research, education and ghost net reporting activities.