Plastic boats – how should we dispose of old boats when they reach the end of their lives?

Steve Franklin is on a mission. He's made it his business to deal with the increasing numbers of boats in the UK reaching the end of their useful lives, too many of which end up abandoned in marinas or cluttering up creeks around the country. It's a growing problem which the UK's boating industry – unlike most other European countries – seems to be...

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One sunken boat pollutes ocean as much as 480,000 plastic straws, non-profit says

More than a thousand abandoned boats are disintegrating along British Columbia's coastline, leaking plastic pollutants into the oceans, and a local non-profit is struggling to remove them faster than they're appearing.John Roe, operations director of the Dead Boat Disposal Society, has been cleaning up derelict boats from B.C.'s waters for more tha...

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Support for UK boat scrapping scheme

Support for UK boat scrapping scheme - Yachting Monthly A solution to the problem of end-of-life boats and how to dispose of them could be on the horizon https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/support-for-uk-boat-scrapping-scheme-68479 A working party has been set up by the European Boating Association (EBA) to look at the issue of end-of-life boats ...

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Resources

International Maritime Organisation 2019END-OF-LIFE MANAGEMENT OF FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC VESSELS: ALTERNATIVES TO AT SEA DISPOSAL In 2016, the London Convention and London Protocol (LC/LP) governing bodies, having reviewedthe LC/LP Scientific Groups' discussion on the widespread nature of the problem of disposing of fibreglass vessels, particular...

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