Re: [Paddlewise] Fiberglass First

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Kossy <bkossy_at_igc.org>
To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Date: June 22, 1999 2:38 PM
Subject: [Paddlewise] Fiberglass First


(SNIP)


> I guess a downside of fiberglass is that it's impossible to
>recycle, and now they can make kayaks out of old milk jugs, and recycle
the
>old kayaks into new kayaks.


Actually a company now offers a device that can chop up your glass boat and
pulverize it into a filler that they can re-use in fiberglass laminates.
They had not much luck with Kevlar and Spectra though but they plan to work
on it.

It didn't seem economically practical at this point but with time, who
knows.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/

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