Here the potentials of recycling sailing or motor yachts:
- Any already existing nautical business offering yacht transportation, yacht dismantling or crane services for yachts, to name just a few, will very likely see an increase in work with organised recycling facilities and -procedures.
- Same goes for resellers of all those ship components which are unsuitable for recycling – but still are very useful on other ships.
- More 2nd hand components will get into circulation with systematic yacht dismantling. While preparing yacht materials and components for recycling, many components can be put aside for re-selling.
- Side-effect of this longer use of yacht components might be a smarter resource usage when it comes to the production of new components.
- Stable and suitable funding provided, facilities dedicated for preparing yacht components for recycling will create a variety of new jobs.
- Especially in coastal regions and including administrative and technical jobs, for instance when yachts get registered, the dismantling /recycling procedures documented, staff trained, work planned and supervised, machinery procured, maintained and repaired, knowledge transferred across countries – and so on.
- A nasty environmental problem we are currently heavily molesting our blue marble with, will get resolved and avoided altogether for the future by sustainable yacht recycling: Landscapes will contain less illegally dumped yachts. Marina areas will be freed, toxic substances deriving from old yachts won’t leak any more into waters and grounds.