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VALNET

Axis 1: Low environmental impact materials in their environments
Bandeau_VALNET

2023-2024: National project to recycle used fishing nets into a cementitious composite with low environmental impact

The VALNET project aims to :

  • Reduce the carbon footprint of the construction and public works sector, and more specifically of cementitious materials, by preserving non-renewable natural resources,
  • Enhance the value of used fishing nets by incorporating their fibers into cementitious composites, thus creating an eco-responsible fiber-reinforced concrete.

Project development context

The VALNET project continues the momentum generated by the FIRENOR project, which is due to end by December 2022 (see SMEL section). The aim of the FIRENOR project was to develop a simple and effective tool for the collection and recovery of used fishing nets. The VALNET project is perfectly in line with these objectives, with the aim of finding a second life for these collected fishing nets.

What's more, the VALNET project complements the RECYPECH project (presented in the Maritime Cooperation section), which finds ways to recycle fishing nets collected a long way from the collection areas. VALNET will offer recovery in the direct vicinity of collection areas, thus reducing the carbon footprint associated with transporting this waste.

VALNET will enable us to take the "next step" in projects already completed or in the process of being finalized, so as to maintain the momentum of local players who have already mobilized and are already collecting their used nets, and waiting to be recycled.

Based on existing sources, it will demonstrate the potential for reducing the carbon footprint of the construction and public works sector:

  • by incorporating used fishing nets, thus avoiding their usual incineration.
  • by reducing the carbon footprint associated with transporting used nets from their collection site to their recycling site.

 

Project partners

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This project is financed by ADEME as part of the Interregional State-Region Plan Contract (CPIER VdS) for the Seine Valley, and by the Normandy and Ile-de-France regions for 85% of the total project cost (613,508.40 euros).