.........and the answer is ?

[oldgit]

As glassfibre is virtually indestructable and will use considerable amounts of energy and money to dispose of the remains at some future date,should the costs of disposal be loaded onto the invoice of the first boat owner or be distributed evenly over all the owners during lifetime of the boat.
Is the last bloke in the food chain,probably the one least able to afford it , responsible probably resulting in it being dumped , then the local council gets lumbered and you and me pick up the bill ?

 

[PCUK]

A box of matches is a cheap solution.

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

There is a close solution for this coming from an USA firm working with a German engineering company at the moment.
But is not yet finalized.
It might be that GRP boat parts can become part of a new type of composite in a new concrete brick mixture.

With current oil prices using it as burning fuel is not feasible. There is also some studies in Italy but again they are not yet completed.

 

[Bouba]

As glassfibre is virtually indestructable and will use considerable amounts of energy and money to dispose of the remains at some future date,should the costs of disposal be loaded onto the invoice of the first boat owner or be distributed evenly over all the owners during lifetime of the boat.
Is the last bloke in the food chain,probably the one least able to afford it , responsible probably resulting in it being dumped , then the local council gets lumbered and you and me pick up the bill ?

Please don't think of new costs and tariffs for the already ripped off boat owner, a politician could be reading this

 

[Bigplumbs]

Please don't think of new costs and tariffs for the already ripped off boat owner, a politician could be reading this

Quite. Don't overthink things. By the time it is a real problem someone will have figured it out

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Yes I agree that the costs of disposal should be loaded onto the initial purchase price of all disposable consumer goods. However with the vast majority of grp boats being in use for decades the likely disposal costs are impossible to estimate because nobody knows what disposal technologies will be available at the time of disposal

 

[Boat2016]

How many grp boats are broken up and disposed of?

 

[oldgit]

Can recall less than a handful of glassfibre boats being disposed of properly.
One was cut up by members of a previous boat club, a pretty vile and unpleasant job it was too.
Two or three more were boats which had been abandoned after flood damage or were discovered after being scuttled by a previous owners possibly not caring or not knowing what to do with the hull.
Private company Peel Ports had the job of sending out a boat and men to grind the hulls into movable bits and cart the lot away for disposal,going to guess at several thousand pounds involved.
The owners could not be traced so fat chance of recovering cost from very possibly non existant insurance.
Two of the boats were from above the lock and had been carried over the weir by floodwater,one was scuttled and not discovered until survey of river bed was underway months later.

 

[Robert Wilson]

A friend of mine had himself buried at the helm in his Flying Fifteen in a field infront of his house. I bet he wasn't thinking about GRP disposal costs.
Always a bit of a bumptious sort.

I presume the guy who buried him did so with the mast down !!