Remembrance Sunday 2021
In our line of work we come across many people doing good in helping others in life. This can be on a personal level , helping a wider group or indeed doing good for the world as a whole.
Recently we came across Amy and Adam who were doing exactly that, helping to make the world a better place. It just seemed apt on this day and in light of the recent COP 26 conference to give them a mention.
Castaway Ropeworks is a small family business based in Hayle, West Cornwall, they started the business 12 months ago. After working at sea for many years Amy and Adam decided that they wanted to do something positive about the staggering amount of plastic waste in the oceans so came up with the idea of making rope items out of recycled commercial fishing gear known as ghost gear. Their two young children help to recover any ghost gear found on the local beaches of Cornwall.
This fishing equipment is often lost from storm damage, or snagging and can travel many miles snaring all manner of marine life until it reaches the shore.
In a collaboration with the @veteranscharity and @aplasticbottleandapaintbrush Castaway Ropeworks created a special wreath for the Poppies to Paddington remembrance commemoration. The wreath was made of rope recycled from Newlyn and poppies handmade from leftover plastic bottles. Early Thursday morning 11th November the wreath travelled from Penzance aboard a @gwruk train for the service of remembrance at #paddingtonstation
To see more of their work find them on Facebook