"It doesn't have any of the smell that you would think you'd get from that ghost gear." The plastics recycler OK'd the fishy-smelling delivery for its newest venture: commercializing synthetic lumber made out of ghost gear. Workers picked out the shellfish and cut the ghost gear into shorter lengths before loading it into the shredder. The ghost gear was blended with shopping bags to create planks that look just like the other products now sold to the public. But he said the real saving is the benefit to the environment, especially if the plastic lumber is returned to where it came from — the sea — as wharf or marina timbers.

Source: CBC News June 17, 2020 09:00 UTC