Scare mongering or what!!

[oldharry]

Re: Getting rid of GRP - and plastics in general

But just chopping it up doesnt get rid of it. It remains GRP - just in smaller pieces and therefore taking up less space. If I understand it right, nearly ALL the plastics we are using and 'disposing of' so cheerfully - ranging from the supermarkets' packaging around tonights dinner (and the bag it came in), to the latest gleaming contribution at the LBS next month - WILL still be in the environment in 5000 years time. And how many millions of tons of plastics do we produce annually for 'one off' use - let alone racing dinghies and Bav/Bens which can be compressed but not destroyed by chopping up....

A disposal problem spectre which future generations will not I suspect, thank us for any more (or less) than the Nuclear waste stockpile.

GRP is the first boat building material in history that is NOT Bio-degradeable. So what WILL we do with the huge volume of mass produced GRP yachts being built each year when they finally become unuseable?

 

[Jacket]

Re: Getting rid of GRP - and plastics in general

Chopping it up doesn't get rid of it, I agree. But at least it does mean that we can then do something usefull with it, other than dumping it in a landfill.

Of course, the ultimate answer is to use thermoplastic resins for our yachts. then, when they get too old, we can just melt them down and build a new boat out of them!

 

[vyv_cox]

The words Brent Spar spring to mind

No chance.

Artificial reefs have been found to be very beneficial to fish and marine wildlife. That's not important to the loony environmentalists. It's the principle that counts.