Join us in Lisbon on 9 and 10 October for Ship Recycling Lab, Lisbon
The second edition of the Ship Recycling Lab is almost here! Organised by one of the member of the consortium, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, the event will showcase best practices in ship demolition and design, waste management and materials recovery.
Bringing together progressive stakeholders for insightful and inspiring presentations, panel debates and networking sessions, the second Ship Recycling Lab aims to stimulate commitment and willingness to fund capacity building and innovation for a new ship recycling standard around 4 key themes: emerging capacity in new circular economy hubs, innovation and green technology, policy developments and best practices, green steel.
Romain Benoit (Surfrider) will be moderating session 2, on 9 October from 2pm to 4pm. Entitled “Tech for change”, this session will look at innovative processes, industrial collaborations and synergies between sectors to improve the circularity of materials and operational efficiency. During this session, you will discover how companies, researchers and investors are finding solutions to improve life-cycle management and develop techniques for a fully automated and digitised sector.
In the same session, Dewi Wesselman (Damen) will present the CirclesOfLife project. Involving the European shipbuilding industry and supported by the European Union, the project consortium is constituted by 15 partners (shipyards, research institutes, suppliers, NGOs and other organisations from 6 European countries). Circles of Life officially started in January 2024 and will focus on the creation of an environmental performance index common to all European shipyards – the Shipyard Environmental Performance Index (SEPI), and on the elaboration of a ship lifecycle passport.
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Who is the NGO Shipbreaking Platform?
The NGO is a global coalition of organisations working for safe and environmentally sound end-of-life ship dismantling worldwide. Its vision is that ships recycled in facilities that guarantee clean, safe and fair practices will provide workers with decent jobs. Its mission is to act as a catalyst for change by effectively advocating for clean, safe and fair ship recycling on a global scale.
More information: Ship Recycling Lab
