Green Marine Europe at the 2nd Ship Recycling Lab

Ship Recycling Lab showcases best practice 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, innovation, leadership, green steel.

Romain Benoit, our Outreach Officer, 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.

Also to note the participation of Dewi Wesselam (Damen) for the CirclesOfLife project. Dedicated to the European shipbuilding industry and supported by the European Union, this consortium of 15 partners (shipyards, research institutes, suppliers, NGOs including Shipbreaking Platform and Surfrider Foundation Europe via Green Marine Europe and other organisations from 6 European countries) has been working since January 2024 and until 2026 to formalise an environmental performance index common to all European shipyards - the Shipyard Environmental Performance Index (SEPI).

Ship Recycling Lab is organised by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, 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. Shipbreaking Platform is a Green Marine Europe supporter.