If your company is looking for raw materials to recycle (HDPE, PP, or PA6), we’d love to hear from you. Our team has extensive experience with the composition of maritime plastics in the United States and is actively expanding our efforts to help mariners on all coasts recycle their gear. We’re always seeking new partners and facilities to process these materials—especially those helping build recycling capacity within the U.S. We can send you baled raw materials in containers or trucks, and will work closely with you to supply the materials your business needs. We collaborate with both mechanical and advanced (“chemical”) recyclers, depending on the condition and contamination level of the gear, whether it comes from storage yards or shorelines.

Whether you’re a captain, vessel owner, or fleet manager with old fishing gear to recycle, we’d love to work with you. As a nonprofit organization, our goal is to make recycling accessible and effective for everyone in the maritime sector.

If you’re located in New England, California, or Alaska/Pacific Northwest, please reach out to your regional coordinator to get started. They’ll send you a participation and pricing agreement that outlines recycling costs, logistics, and the information we need to set you up as one of our partner participants. 

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Whether you farm kelp or shellfish, you likely use plastic in your operations. From grow lines to grow-out bags, we are building recycling solutions for all kinds of materials used on a daily basis. We have collection locations on both the East (New Bedford) and West (Newport) coasts, and we look forward to your participation in our programs to help you increase the sustainability of your already environmentally positive business.

As we have grown over the past eight years, we have learned that fishermen are not the only ones who use lines. The workboat industry, ocean freight operators and cruise ships are all required to retire dock and tie-up lines once they are no longer safe to operate. Instead of throwing them away in the next port you visit, why not bring them back home, recycle them and potentially turn them into something your customers or workforce can use. Recycling is a great way to demonstrate your commitment to a variety of sustainability goals, and diverting one metric ton of plastic from the landfill to recycling saves one ton of carbon emissions, so this can even be used as a decarbonization mechanism in support of the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy (reduce emissions by 40% by 2023).    

If you work for a state or federal agency and have RFPs, grants, or other funding opportunities suitable for our work, we’d love to collaborate. We can also help design long-term gear disposal and recycling programs for ports, landfills, or transfer stations. You can be confident that the gear we handle is recycled—not buried or left to pollute the environment. Building sustainable gear recycling systems requires long-term solutions, and government partners at all levels are essential in making these efforts successful.

If your company would like to manufacture products from our plastic, please get in touch with Nicole. We can help brands that care about resource use and the environmental impact of virgin plastics source our processed plastic, so you can make something beautiful from it!  Creating demand for the materials we collect is essential, and customers are hungry for the stories behind products made from plastic with a unique origin story.  

We have a comprehensive sourcing document with potential suppliers and are eager to build partnerships where product sales help fund gear collection—especially in remote communities, where recycling can be costly for individual fishers. We are actively seeking sustainable brands committed to supporting fishing communities and closing the supply chain loop.