Samstag, 29. Juni 2019
FPT INDUSTRIAL MAKES ANOTHER CONCRETE GESTURE FOR SUSTAINABILITY: THREE TONS OF PLASTIC FISHED OUT OF THE SEAS OF SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO
bodohann, 16:00h
Raising public awareness of environmental protection and protecting our seas is essential. And the project "Fishing for Plastic" tries to give a concrete answer. Between May and June, in fact, some forty fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, on Italy's Adriatic coast, collected and brought ashore all the plastic recovered during fishing. A month after the start of the activity, FPT Industrial and the initiative partners took stock today, at the Museum of the Sea in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno), literally bringing to the surface significant data.
The fleet employed in San Benedetto del Tronto was the largest ever used in Italy for this purpose: the group of boats fished some three tons of plastic in just over a month. By analysing the waste in detail, 48% consists of commonly used or disposable items, such as bottles, containers, plastic bags and food packaging, while 34% is lost or abandoned fishing and mussel farming gear, such as fishing and mussel breeding nets, lines, ropes, buoys and floats. The remaining 18% consists of fragments of plastic, objects that are difficult to identify or other unusual and curious items, such as inflatable mattresses, toys, beach balls, balloons, a computer keyboard, a dummy's head, a gas mask and a printer cover.
If we take into consideration all the waste brought ashore by the fishermen, the total rises to around six tons. A figure that makes us think if examined qualitatively: 53% is plastic waste, 13% is textile material, 11.5% metal and rubber, 4.6% glass and 4% mixed waste. Less than 2% is food waste produced by fishermen, such as bottles, cans or food packaging. 28% of the items comes from fishing and commercial navigation: in addition to fishing gear, there are metallic paint cans, filters and engine gaskets, oilcloths and boots, work gloves.
"The protection of the environment is a topic that we have very much at heart and that, like FPT Industrial, we translate into two key concepts: concreteness and awareness," says Egle Panzella, Head of Brand Equity, Sustainability and Heritage of FPT Industrial. "Precisely for this reason we are very keen on the Fishing for Plastic project, as it represents a real gesture which the data submitted today proves. The pilot phase has just ended, but we decided, together with all the partners, to extend it until mid-August, so that this "fishing" can become a custom and not a short-term project".
The fleet employed in San Benedetto del Tronto was the largest ever used in Italy for this purpose: the group of boats fished some three tons of plastic in just over a month. By analysing the waste in detail, 48% consists of commonly used or disposable items, such as bottles, containers, plastic bags and food packaging, while 34% is lost or abandoned fishing and mussel farming gear, such as fishing and mussel breeding nets, lines, ropes, buoys and floats. The remaining 18% consists of fragments of plastic, objects that are difficult to identify or other unusual and curious items, such as inflatable mattresses, toys, beach balls, balloons, a computer keyboard, a dummy's head, a gas mask and a printer cover.
If we take into consideration all the waste brought ashore by the fishermen, the total rises to around six tons. A figure that makes us think if examined qualitatively: 53% is plastic waste, 13% is textile material, 11.5% metal and rubber, 4.6% glass and 4% mixed waste. Less than 2% is food waste produced by fishermen, such as bottles, cans or food packaging. 28% of the items comes from fishing and commercial navigation: in addition to fishing gear, there are metallic paint cans, filters and engine gaskets, oilcloths and boots, work gloves.
"The protection of the environment is a topic that we have very much at heart and that, like FPT Industrial, we translate into two key concepts: concreteness and awareness," says Egle Panzella, Head of Brand Equity, Sustainability and Heritage of FPT Industrial. "Precisely for this reason we are very keen on the Fishing for Plastic project, as it represents a real gesture which the data submitted today proves. The pilot phase has just ended, but we decided, together with all the partners, to extend it until mid-August, so that this "fishing" can become a custom and not a short-term project".
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