Javea Grapevine Issue 181 - LARGE FONT EDITION | Page 110

Valencia fishermen catch
plastic - to make
up-market
clothes
Since July, fishing
boats have been
picking up plastic
waste in the Mediterranean which
will be recycled
into polyester fibres
that will be used to
make a high-end
clothing line. “We
want to present the
first fashion collection made with
yarn and fabric that
come from garbage
found at the bottom
of the sea in June
in Florence,” said
Javier Goyeneche,
45, the president
of Ecoalf, (http://
ecoalf.com/) the
Spanish company
behind the venture.

Ecoalf says it will
be the first company to make
clothes from recycled plastic waste
found at sea and it
has signed on 200
fishing boats in the
eastern region of
Valencia to act as
scavengers.
The
company,
which employs 18
people and posted
a turnover of €4.5
million
($4.8m)
this year, already
sells its jackets
and
backpacks
made from recycled waste in upscale shops such as
Harrods in London
and Bloomingdale
in New York.
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San
Antonio
Lighthouse goes
out - for a while
The Cabo de San
Antonio lighthouse
was extinguished
for the first time
in 60 years for two
nights while a new
system to control
the light remotely was installed.
System will enable the generator to
be started and will
report any faults
remotely. Over the
coming
months
other
lighthouses along the coast
will be similarly
equipped, the last
being the Cabo de
la Nao lighthouse,
which
although
the newest has the
oldest optics which
were recycled and
remounted from
the previous building.