Recyship is an ambitious European project framed within the LIFE+ program in the action line of “Environment Policy and Governance” to be developed during the period 2009-2012. The intention is to address the issue of ship scrapping in matters of occupational safety, health and environmental protection.
This project seeks to support the European Commission in developing rules and guidelines in relation to vessels that, for various reasons, must be removed becoming a unique residue very complex to manage.
The prototype developed by Recyship Project is already finished and working. You can see a demo video on the link below.
On the one hand, under the existing law, if an object is declared abandoned, it becomes automatically a waste, dangerous or not, but definitely a residue. We find that in auctions of ships declared abandoned, this does not apply, and the vessels are still considered as such, allowing access to them to both companies and individuals without licenses or permits as waste managers, not even as waste producers and causing a rise in prices that hinder the proper management of the ships.
