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Revised Blue Guide: New Recreational Craft Directive
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 yacht recycling
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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Boot 2014 conference
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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Recreational craft directive
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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Potentials of yacht recycling
Here the potentials of recycling sailing or motor yachts: << Back to the yacht recycling overview
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The yacht recycling process – in wishful chic theory
The yacht recycling process First, what is “recycling” precisely? Once extracted components and materials, how are they recycled? Here is a great website explaining the recycling methods in detail, per type of material: BIR, the Bureau of International Recycling. Next, what does a sustainable sailyacht recycling concept entail?Such a service would offer complete dismantling of…
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What is the problem with yacht recycling?
Why should Yachtrecycling be needed? Where is the problem? Landfill: A mass of recreational boats is reaching their end of life.In our days, several millions of sailing and motor yachts are in use worldwide. Many of them only a few days to weeks a year, others much more frequently. For a long time the majority…
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Who is active with yachtrecycling?
A snapshot from 2014.Who is active? Who is active in this field already – and where? What is their state of knowledge / technical solutions found? As said before, recycling of leisure crafts is not practised systematically anywhere yet on a bigger scale. But several countries have begun to experiment with extracting and recycling materials…
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Smart cruising in marine reserves: The Wadden Sea
Sustainable sailing includes smart navigation, such as the capacity to simply stay clear of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSA) with your boat wherever such areas are indicated on a nautical chart. The famous and beloved Wadden Sea, on the UNESCO World Heritage list since2009, is an example of an equally beautiful as vulnerable marine reserve.…
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