Catchgreen is celebrating the end of the year with yet another grade of Biodolomer®Ocean, to be tested in manufacturing trials at Alnet in January.

Catchgreen attended the Third Session of the INC-# Plastic Treaty Negotiations.

Catchgreen visited Wasini Island and the piloting of biodegradable ropes in their effort to retire the communal coral reefs. It was only two weeks since the ropes with coral fragments had been placed on the damaged reefs and already you could see the small corals growing on the ropes.

The piloting of biodegradable ropes for seaweed farming started in August 2023 and will continue for one year. The first monitoring of the ropes took place two weeks after planting and showed that the seaweed had taken to the biodegradable ropes and grown to a similar size as to those that were planted on the normal plastic ropes.

Catchgreen is working with KMFRI to modify the commonly used gillnets by adding Biodolomer®Ocean biodegradable head and lead lines. The nets will be piloted over a period of a year to confirm the functionality and durability of the nets.

The first issue of the Catchgreen Newsletter is out. Read about the successful manufacturing trials of Biodolomer®Ocean that took place at Alnet, South Africa.