This site has been set up to collect information about yacht recycling and to develop clear ideas about its feasibility. Goal is to find out about its realistic potentials, the challenges to meet and how yacht recycling can be built up as a profitable and sustainable business.
Mele Coronato created this site and maintains it. I’m someone who loves to do this kind of researches, provide information, write and connect people with each other at the right time.
A German-Italian communication professional I got many years of practical experience in various industries among which nautical. I’m based in The Netherlands, at the IJsselmeer. As
academic training I did a Bachelor of Science Environmental Studies, with The Open University UK. It was during that study in 2011 when I first started researching about potentials and challenges of yacht recycling and produced a business case for it, as one of my study projects. The topic keeps me busy since then.
In my view there are great potentials for yacht recycling. Not only is time perfectly ripe for such an industry branch. If funded well initially, many valid jobs could be created in coastal regions where people often don’t have too many subsistence options. At the same time, sustainable yacht dismantling and recycling certainly would mean smart environmental protection for generations to come. So I want to find out who is out there active with yacht recycling already. Who might become active with it in the near future and what might prepare good stable grounds for a yacht recycling industry to be created. Which entails already existing nautical businesses to be involved in a way that will be a very useful fit for their business.
My researches thus far tell me that there is reason for real optimism and serious commitment.
