Legislation measures

Quota could be graduated over time, i.e. progressively designed to increase at certain intervals, thus further driving single-use containers out of market relevance.

Regulations Regulations

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • Market incentives for the effective participation in separate collection or for the return of special types of aquaculture gear (like cages) in the form of deposit return schemes are lacking.

  • Procedures for dismantling are not economically efficient today and should be further optimized. Manual dismantling processes only exist in some Baltic Sea countries and transport across countries is expensive.

  • Recycling companies are located too far from the farm to collect, sort and recycle worn out gear and other waste, which is too costly to integrate into the lifecycle of a farm. This barrier leads to dumping the waste in the garbage without sorting it.

  • Lacking market incentives are directly linked with poor waste management which is also related to complex gear products or mixed-pastic formats not designed for recyclabilitiy.

Related Good Practice:

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