Waste to make boat moorings
Polyester is a material that can be easily recycled. It is enough to crush it and to melt it again to recreate ropes. This is a solution proposed by the Cousin rope factory. To do this, it will reuse the production waste from the spinning of Polyester made at a local yarn producer. Indeed, the start-up of a production line always requires machine adjustments which use material, without the final product being valid. This incompressible production waste is remelted, spun and sent to Cousin Trestec for braiding.
Almost identical mechanical characteristics
Once recycled, the polyester regains its characteristics, with about 15% loss of strength and breakage, in favor of a gain in elongation. This is not important for the realization of mooring lines. Thus Cousin offers recycled mooring lines, recognizable by their off-white color. Indeed, the original white color of the material is not found. They are exactly the same price as a "new polyester" mooring line. Count 4,40 euros HT/m for Futuna 14 mm.
At the same time, a reflection with the stores of fittings and other rope makers is in progress to set up a collection of used ropes in the nautical sector in order to recycle them.
