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As somebody who volunteered to help around the Yacht Club with scrubbing off hulls and applying antifouling paints for money as a teenager. Peter Franklin writes about the effect of antifouling on the environment.

Antifoulings and the environment… A complex future!

During this year we have covered a lot of subjects from End-of Life Boats, to cleaner marinas, antifouling trends and alternatives, plastic in the oceans, Circular Economy developments etc, etc. But there is plenty more to talk about, and as always it's the creative and committed individuals in our industry that are driving the innovations in reaction to changing environmental demands.  So in the new year, we will be looking into several organisations that are setting great examples, and interviewing some people that are working with them.  For example, the World Sailing Organisation have launched their Sustainability targets for achievement by 2030, and the documented plans are currently going through a four month consultation phase. We’ll be talking with their Sustainability Manager Dan Reading to find out more, and will let the METSTRADE Community know all about it.

One more Sustainability post for 2017…

There’s much focus right now on the very different expectations of the Millennial generation. They want to experience things, not own them. They want sociable physical activity, not a competitive solo sport where they might get embarrassed if they don’t win, or if they wear the wrong thing. Instant gratification with minimal complication is demanded for anything they use.

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