Children at De Bloemaert primary school in Tilburg, the Netherlands, spent a month learning about ‘plastic soup’ and the problem of ghost fishing nets. Interactive lessons and games were focused on keeping nature clean, the effects of litter on nature, and the problem of plastic soup – the plastic litter that is polluting seas and […]

On Sunday 14 May, EU DG MARE staff, including Director General João Aguiar Machado, were joined on the Belgian coast by hundreds of EU colleagues and their families for the first major beach clean-up organised by the European Commission. EU embassies around the world have also been invited to host similar events and help raise […]

“Success is 90% preparation and only 10% perspiration” Awaiting the North Sea diving season our divers spend their time well on diving and safety training, practicing procedures and designing new ones but also they hardly needed maintenance of their diving gear. For dive and procedure training they visit mainly local Dutch lakes but of course […]

We like to inspire! The love for the seas and oceans led university student Heather Nixon to Healthy Seas and ECONYL® – The result? A beautiful project at North Carolina State University… Why sustainability is important in fashion? Learn more about a personal story from this interview: http://www.econyl.com/blog/fashion/inspired-by-the-econyl-story/

What a happy day for us! After only half a year of cooperation we received the first donation from Bracenet about € 3.500! Bracenet develops fashion bracelets from ghost nets and joined forces with Healthy Seas and its many partners, to work together for cleaner and healthier seas. The unique wristbands are made of the […]

Children at De Bloemaert primary school in the Netherlands, are spending this month learning about ‘plastic soup’ and the problem of ghost fishing nets. Lessons will focus on keeping nature clean, the effects of litter on nature, and the problem of plastic soup – the plastic litter that is polluting seas and oceans. The programme […]

Bracenet develops fashion bracelets from ghost nets and joined forces with Healthy Seas and its many partners, to work together for cleaner and healthier seas. The unique wristbands are made of the waste fishing nets that are collected by Healthy Seas and Ghost Fishing. The nets are cleaned and sorted by Nofir AS and then […]

Last week again ca. 5,5 tons of waste fishing nets were transported to recycling from Greece. Many thanks to our partners: Kastelorizo fish farm, the fishermen associations of Alimos and Mikrolimano for collecting their nets for us and keeping the sea clean and healthy. You can almost smell these nets in the video below… Healthy […]

Great news from Italy! Watch the latest video from Portofino Divers about a clean-up dive in the Portofino Marine Protected Area! They are dedicated for the conservation of the reefs and did already several ghost fishing net recovering in the marine park. We are looking forward to have joint projects in Italy. Photos © Bruno […]

Last year’s results are published and they look very encouraging! We created many new and valuable partnerships, which helped us collecting much bigger amount of nets with the help of divers and fishermen. Also, we had exciting new activities with the involvement of schools. Together with our partners, we developed education material and interactive games […]

Healthy Seas was an Exhibitor at Duikvaker Expo last weekend (4-5 February) at Expo Houten. The biggest diving event of the Netherlands had its 25th anniversary this year. The event attracted ca. 15.000 visitors, 100+ exhibitors and 80 speakers from all over Europe. Together with our partner Ghost Fishing, we were spreading the word about […]

On Wednesday 25th January, around 120 children and parents from the Annie M.G. Schmidtschool and day-care centre 2Samen participated in our Healthy Seas beach clean-up in the Netherlands. They bravely faced the cold for more than an hour, collecting over 330 kilograms of litter from the North Sea coast at Scheveningen. Upon return they weighed […]