Support measures

Provide disposal points targeting specific material and/or gear, such as mussel nets, anti-predator nets, etc. In this way, concentrating bigger amount of waste in one point and hiring a company for the disposal operations can become economically feasible.

Support for waste management Support for waste management

Design: Precious plastics Design: Precious plastics

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Mediterranean

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • High-level policy makers show little awareness of the necessity to develop specific decrees for the EPR system. Besides, an EPR system is very complex and needs the involvement of many sectors and many public and private institutions.

  • In Greece, it is the Municipalities’ duty to collect the mussel farming waste, but the mussel farmers should be charged for this service. As there are no proper disposal points, farmers often burn the nets and pile barrels close to the ports.

  • There are no containers for small size material.

  • There is a lack of protocols for the cleaning and recovery of materials prior to recycling. There is a resistance to collecting all types of materials in ports. For example, dirty materials are not taken by all recyclers.

  • Waste management points or recycling centres are not usually near the collection points for aquaculture litter and the transportation costs are very expensive (payment of taxes or management/transport of waste to waste management facility. Even more, some ports do not have facilities for collecting nets or other type of waste.

  • There is additional legislation needed (decrees) to put in place specific EPR schemes in Spain.

  • Waste collection points sometimes compete with touristic places which generates spatial conflicts of interests

Related Good Practice:

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