SOLUTION / PUBLIC SOURCE RECORD
Oceanize creates a closed plastic loop for aquaculture
- Published 14 December 2022; updated 21 September 2026; estimated reading time 3 minutes. Listed as available under Circular economy.
- Oceanize collects, sorts and cleans industrial plastic waste—currently focusing on aquaculture and fisheries—and recycles it into plastic granules. Laboratory testing checks properties such as melt flow, density, moisture and impurities before the granules go to manufacturers, with specifications matched to each customer.
- The company says it aims to keep recycled material in the same industry, tracing it through a closed loop and turning used plastic into new products. Feedstock can include fish-farm and fishing gear, including ghost nets that continue to kill marine life.
- Challenge context: the page cites Norway’s circularity rate at 2.4%, compared with a global average of 8.6%, and says much plastic still ends up in landfill, incineration or the ocean. It references public attention to marine plastic following a stranded whale found with plastic in its stomach in 2017.
- Oceanize says recycling reduces greenhouse emissions by cutting incineration, waste transport and demand for virgin plastic, and can reduce ocean plastic and microplastic pollution. It frames exporting recycled products as preferable to exporting plastic waste for disposal.
- Market/regulatory context: the page points to EU aquaculture policy and marine-plastic directives, plus increasingly stringent national rules. It says demand for cost-effective sustainable methods is growing. Oceanize is developing a digital plastic-tracking system, expanding toward municipal waste and working with Ogoori on ownerless ocean-plastic collection and recycling.
- Founded in 2017, Oceanize is described as headquartered in Norway with a Poland branch; the page says it planned expansion into Iceland and Scotland. These are statements in the article and may not reflect current footprint.
- Linked to SDG 12, Responsible consumption and production; SDG 14, Life below water; and SDG 15, Life on land, through recycling and reducing plastic pollution.
- Contact: Tormod Steen, Communication & Project Manager, tormod@oceanize.no. Phone number is behind a collapsed reveal control. Company: OCEANIZE AS, Matmortua, Foldavegen 6012, 7940 Ottersøy, Norway; oceanize.no.