Marlow Ropes is launching a  mooring rope made using 100% recycled plastic.

Blue Ocean Dockline, is the first ‘technically better’ premium dockline rope manufactured using yarns wholly made from plastic bottles. “The development and production of recycled polyester (rPET) yarn combined with Marlow’s engineering expertise has resulted in this latest rope innovation,” the company says.

Seven and half waste plastic bottles are used to make a metre of Marlow’s 16mm Blue Ocean Dockline.  It is available pre-spliced in 12 mm and 16 mm diameters from 6m to 15m long. The Blue Ocean Dockline is exclusive to Marlow’s mooring series and launches to the UK market immediately, followed by the rest of Europe in 2019. Marlow promises it has the same attributes as its other mooring products – with good abrasion resistance and shock absorption plus a soft and supple flexibility and zero strength loss or shrinkage.

rPET yarns use 94 percent less water than oil-based PET fibres. The production process uses 60 percent less energy and there is a 32 percent CO2 emissions reduction. These yarns are then woven on site in Sussex at Marlow Ropes’ manufacturing operation to create the Blue Ocean Dockline – 100 percent up-cycled plastic and fully waterproof.

Jim Mitchell, MD of Marlow Ropes said: “Re-using something as available as discarded plastic water bottles, reduces toxic emissions from incinerators, diverts waste from landfills, and, of course, requires fewer resources overall to be made — so that one-time purchase of a water bottle may stay useful, and stay in circulation, for many years to come.

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