Recycling of old boats: a booming market
Each year, 20 pleasure or fishing boats reach the end of their life. To prevent them from polluting the sea and the coast, specialized companies reprocess nautical waste
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Updated on 03/04/2015 | 17:02, published on 03/04/2015 | 11:30
When they reach the end of their life, pleasure boats or small fishing boats often end up in the mud. But this pollution is no longer inevitable. Several specialized companies have entered the boat recycling market. They use a machine to crush the plastic shells. "The idea is to reduce volumes, to massify the carcasses, and to be able to start selective sorting", explains Pierre Rolland, president of the Breton Recyclers.
Boats transformed into fuel
Once they are shredded, old boats can be recycled for fuel. The market is buoyant, as there are 20 wrecks to be crushed each year.
For the owners of these old ships, recycling costs between 200 and 1 euros per wreck, depending on its size. But for the moment, no regulation obliges them to have them recycled.
chatelot16 wrote:polyester is a bad fuel because it contains too much glass: the value of the heat produced may not cover the costs: it is therefore better to landfill than to burn it anyhow
exception: burn it in the cement plant: the glass decomposes at the manufacturing temperature of the cement, and simply enters into the composition of the cement ... the other charges present in the polyester are not harmful to the cement, so the solution is all found to give a little value to old polyester
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