Grieg to scrutinise plastic use
GRIEG Seafood has teamed up with the Bellona Environmental Foundation to find ways of cutting down on plastic consumption in the fish farming industry.
The nature of aquaculture production means it is a large scale user of plastic, with Norway alone generating almost 30,000 tonnes of waste each year.
The Bellona Environmental Foundation is an independent organisation which says it works to solve global climate challenges by attempting to identify and implement sustainable solutions.
Grieg is one of Norway’s largest fish farming companies and also has farms in Shetland and British Columbia, Canada.
Grieg Seafood CEO Andreas Kvame said the company will look carefully at how it can better safeguard the environment and he welcomed any challenges that Bellona may bring up during the research.
‘We produce safe food today and we want to be doing that 100 years from now, which is why we are serious in our responsibility to take care of the environment,’ he said.
Praising Grieg for its forward thinking, senior Bellona consultant Kari Torp said the huge amount of plastic now going into the sea made it imperative for all companies to examine how they use plastic in their production methods.