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How should yacht recycling work, in a world where every involved party is fairly paid and enabled to act? Yacht recycling starts with sustainable sailyacht or motoryacht dismantling.Sustainable dismantling of yachts at their end of life happens in such a way that the yacht gets completely disintegrated in an environmentally safe way and all components

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About how many boats are we talking? How many yachts would there be for recycling, potentially, and when? Obviously this varies from country to country and more in-detail assessments are still being done. In the meantime, here is a useful first overview. According to an ICOMIA [1] report (2008) about boat decommissioning, estimated numbers look

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Working site requirements with yachtrecycling Technical requirements and preparation. The hall features will include a first aid station, a canteen, sanitary facilities. The hall will be big and spacious enough for two sailyachts at a time to be brought in and dismantled, side by side. With enough space between them for workers to move safely.

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Materials of a sailing or motor yacht which can be recycled include: Polyester / Kevlar: SailsAluminium: Rig , Mast, portlightsFibreglass: HullWood: Furniture, Hull, DeckNylon: Ropes, (Spinnaker) SailsStainless steel: Deck equipment (e.g. winches, guard rails), port lightsSteel: Engine components, hull with steel shipsPlastic: Instrument covers, kitchen utilites, sanitary components One big challenge with recycling of sailing

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The main challenges with yacht recycling, in brief, are these: TechnicalExtracting sufficient material in conditions which allow to recycle them: Clean materials and components. A main challenge here is an extremely resistant, concurrently light-weighted material used in most modern yachts: The glass reinforced polyester, so called fibreglass. It requires special techniques, equipment and treatment to

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The legal side.Talking about the famous new EU recreational craft directive, here it is:The directive text: 94/25/EC and here the website of The Recreational Craft Sectoral Group (RSG) which “has been established to assist in the uniform application and interpretation of the Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) by all Notified Bodies and others parties with valid

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New recreational craft directive’s implementation: RevisedBlue Guide This news just came in with the youngest newsletter of the European Boating industry.Quote: “The European Commission released its updated Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach (also known as the “Blue Guide”). This new version takes into account the

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EU funded yachtrecycling Yachtrecycling and EU programmes.With the new recreational craft directive, programmes specific for EU funded yachtrecycling are likely to come up as a logical next step. So in terms of funding opportunities and until recreational craft specific programmes will appear: Which grant and funding programmes are interesting, in 2014?One is the Cohesion Policy

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The Yacht Recycling Conference took place on 22 January 2014, as sub-event of the annual Boot exhibition at Duesseldorf, Germany. It was a very interesting event featuring speakers and participants form various countries. These were the boot conference_speakers. The Final programme boot Conference 2014 looked like this. See here 4 interviews with the main speakers

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Date : April 29, 2014This news just came in with the youngest newsletter of the European Boating industry.Quote: “The European Commission released its updated Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach (also known as the “Blue Guide”). This new version takes into account the modernisation brought to

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