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BEHAVIOUR CHANGE CORNWALL
EYEWEAR STRAP TRACEABILITY
We've partnered with Behaviour Change Cornwall to create adjustable sunglasses and glasses retainer straps, using recycled fishing nets collected from across the coast of Cornwall.
SHOP STRAPSSTRAP RECOVERY DATA
On each strap are stainless steel beads engraved with a batch number; allowing you to track exactly where and when the fishing gear used to create your eyewear strap was recovered.
Batch 006 - Loe Bar
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Date: 07/02/2024
Method: Large and mauled tangle of nets, cut hauled in sections by pick up and reloaded into van.
Associated Finds: At least 15 seperate net types and several sections of each in one large knot burried in the single. Weighed in smaller sections, total cumulative weight 3.4 tonnes.
Net Origin: Tags associated with Newlyn.
Batch 005 - Polkerris, St Austell
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Date: 07/02/2024
Method: Large and intact drift gill net. Cut into sections and taken to warehouse via van.
Associated Finds: Orange and green braided twine wrapped around multicoloured rope and floats attached to 450kg net weight of cyan gill net.
Net Origin: Mevagissey via St Austell Bay.
Batch 004 - Looe
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Date: 21/12/2023
Method: Reported via social media, large anchor rope 12m length x 200mm diameter. Floated via kayaks to warehouse.
Associated Finds: ~200m of HDPE braided twine (pure yellow) wrapped around 14.7kg of PP twis (pure yellow) internal rope core 18kg dry of rough external cotton/PP twist mix (ssorted colours)
Net Origin: Unknown
Batch 003 - Porthleven
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Date: 31-03-2023
Method: 2m X 10m light trawl net reported via social media. Dug out of sand by hand and kept intact to be transported.
Associated Finds: Fixing Twine (Black), blue jerry cans, grey black lobster traps, and crate segment stamped Newlyn.
Net Origin: Presumed Newlyn Port, based on fish crate.
Batch 002 - Kynance Cove
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Date: 08-01-2021
Method: At low tide climbed to cut large intact trawl net into strips from tangle in rocks to enable transport of approx 200kg of net
Associated Finds: Fixing twine (orange & green)
Net Origin: Cornwall (based on style & condition), Unknown Port.
Batch 001 - Perranporth Beach
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Date: 28-06-2022
Method: Large intact black net and tails, hauled back via cart via the Wateringhole intact. Bundled into bags.
Associated Finds: Dolly Ropes & 6 tagged float buoys.
Net Origin: Newlyn, Cornwall (based on buoys).