Rotomould recycling

Originally posted by JimC Clearly then one should separate hulls and decks on old toppers and save them up until there are enough to make a delivery to a recycler cost effective. And defining a boat that will hopefully be used hundreds of times over its lifetime as single use is ****wit stupid... Possibly what would be ideal would be for the manufacturers to provide a service by which they'll pick up an old boat while delivering the new one, and the old ones get hull and deck cut apart, stacked in a corner of the yard then recycled in batches.

in the case of the topper  where  the hull is  mainly the two monolithic  injection mouldings  splitting  for recycling  makes sense as the only 'mixed colour' part is the  seam area which iirc  has  wire in it  to aid the bonding  process 

boats are not 'single use 'plastics  -  that's  straws , (cheap) plastic cutlery,  cheap plastic / foam  takeaway containers  , plastic cleaning product / toiletry / cosmetic packs  etc etc etc 

No Noah
I stand corrected

AIUI Aluminium, once it's been anodised, cannot be melted down and recycled...

Single use suggests 1 sail, then bin, like a cucumber plastic wrapper. Using a boat for 10 or even 20 years (or 5, maybe in a sailing school) would seem like good use compared to almost any other plastic product. If it can be turned into bricks, or pothole filler at the end of that, all the better.

As to why Topperand Laser went rotomould, it was because they kept on losing money on their racing boats, barring the main two. They probably got fed up the class associations, too!