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For years the question of what to do with old fishing nets was a real headache.
Fishermen sometimes dumped them at sea, or they were brought to shore and discarded in landfill.
Now thanks to a scheme organised by Keep Britain Tidy, old trawling nets are for the first time being recycled here in the UK.
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