Responsibility measures

Shift toward more sustainabel and reyclable materials in single-use and reusable food containers, e.g. by setting minimunm recycled contnt quota or standars for plastic tpyes like lightweight plastic (PE, PP) and polymeres with high density (PA, PEt).

Producer responisbility Producer responisbility

Design: Form plastics Design: Form plastics

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • Companies often lack internal cost-risk assessments related to easy-to-lose plastic materials.

  • Top-down (legal) approaches are absent to forbid easy to lose single-use plastic items.

  • Guidelines and specifications for different types of materials and equipment are lacking. A difference should be made between consumables; single use, short use material and durables; long use material.

  • Universities dealing with alternative materials are rare and not well funded by national entities; thus, knowledge on the existence of sustainable alternatives for aquaculture material is limited and not growing.

  • At EU level, there is currently no accepted scientific standard (e.g. CE) on marine biodegradability, which highlights the urgency for developing a separate standard for marine biodegradability.

Related Good Practice:

P&R GP7.1

Resource-efficiency programmes

Some Baltic Sea countries like Denmark, Schweden and Germany installed so-called resource-efficiency programmes to foster research and designers to use more re-usable, easy to recycle materials – also for fishing and aquaculture nets and other gear types.