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Net Your Problem Plans for New Warehouse in Newport, Oregon
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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...
Recycling Company Braces for Influx of Nets from Bristol Bay
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Recycling Company Braces for Influx of Nets from Bristol Bay

Net Your Problem, a Seattle-based company led by research scientist Nicole Baker, is forecasting an onslaught of commercial fishing nets for recycling at the end of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery in July, to ultimately be made into new plastic products. Baker said in a dispatch from Bristol Bay on the eve of that fishery that Net Your Problem had launched a new collection site across from a city dock in Naknek, Alaska, and was spreading the word to fishermen and fishing industry related entities to drop off worn out fishing nets at season’s end. Baker, a former North Pacific groundfish fisheries observer, now works at the University of Washington in Seattle as a research scientist, but said she is working on expanding her footprint to other fishing ports to make this a full-time ...