Net Your Problem Plans for New Warehouse in Newport, Oregon
Eight years into repurposing commercial fishing nets into multiple useable products, entrepreneur Nicole Baker’s newest goal is establishing a warehouse in Newport, Oregon, to meet new requirements for separate cleaning of a variety of plastics.
“That’s the new focus for us this year and also to expand to collecting worn out plastic gear from cruise ships, barges and aquaculture firms,” Baker said Feb. 6 at an environmental forum in Anchorage.
Since Baker began her mission in 2017 to get the massive amount of commercial fisheries equipment waste washing up on coastal shores off the beaches and in dumps into usable products, her company has collected some 2.2 million pounds of plastics, she said.
Under recent rules of the Basel-Rotterdam-Stockholm agreement, each variety of pla...