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Fishy Filaments is a UK-based start-up that is building a fishing net recycling system for community-scale deployment around the world. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the process and the value of the materials we can recycle our focus is on supplying high value applications such as 3D printing. This approach allows us to provide hyper-local supplies of an engineering grade material right next to the commercial fishing fleets that initially buy, use, then put to waste the nets we recycle. Every step of the process and the business model is driven by carbon emissions reduction and we've shown that we can provide near new mechanical performance at 97-98% lower carbon emissions vs the baseline of new Nylon 6 that the nets are initially made from. The recycled Nylon 6 has found uses in consumer goods, homewares, fashion, sporting goods and is being exploredd by the auto sector.