Sustainable Fibre Solutions - Wool Rope

可持续纤维解决方案 - 羊毛绳

• 批准号: 10055225
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: SUSTAINABLE ROPE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10055225
• 关键词: Sustainable; Fibre; Solutions; Wool; Rope

My name is Kate Drury and I have been working in the agricultural industry for the past 30 years, on the farm and in ancillary trades. I am also the first elected female wool producer, on the board of British Wool Marketing Board. Alongside running my business, I am involved with promoting British farming and research. I want to realise the benefits wool rope can have on environmental challenges and create an opportunity for society to access and raise demand for British wool a beautiful natural product.The innovation will seek to address environmental, economic and societal issues. These include, but not exclusive to, the lack of alternatives to polypropylene in the mariculture industry, the lack of availability for a northern hemisphere natural fibre available at a commercial level and the low value UK farmers receive for their wool.To date, wool is an underutilised sustainable biogenic resource that has the potential to reduce the use of plastic within the environment. Wool can be manufactured into rope; it is an innovative product but is it viable? It is important to understand, does it have enough tensile strength, and can it be used within the industry without the risk of damage to the environment? Work carried out by Sustainable Rope has answered these two questions and now seeks to develop the product for broad application in mariculture, permaculture and eco-system renewal by taking the characteristics identified and deploying them in the best way, using a commercial product from a sustainable company.Over the past year I have been researching the value of rope made out of wool, sourcing the supply chain and I now have a commercial business manufacturing wool rope in the UK, winning the Wool Innovation Award 2022\. The innovation is to capture the viability, longevity through degradation rates and critical strength application of the rope for aqua and mariculture to provide an alternative to plastic rope and mitigate plastic pollution.Wool rope has the ability to help strategic environmental and social policy, such as UK Innovation Strategy, Brand Britain, Sustainable Development Goals and Levelling up Rural Britain. The full process is still available here in the UK, made in Britain using British raw materials. Many additional markets have arisen; however the success will be to exploit the research that this application seeks to carryout.

我叫凯特·德鲁里 (Kate Drury)，过去 30 年我一直在农业行业工作，从事农场和辅助行业。我也是英国羊毛营销委员会董事会中第一位当选的女性羊毛生产商。除了经营我的生意，我还参与促进英国农业和研究。我希望认识到羊毛绳可以对环境挑战带来的好处，并为社会创造机会获得英国羊毛这种美丽的天然产品并提高对它的需求。这项创新将寻求解决环境、经济和社会问题。这些问题包括但不限于海水养殖业中缺乏聚丙烯的替代品、缺乏商业层面的北半球天然纤维以及英国农民获得的羊毛价值较低。一种未充分利用的可持续生物资源，有可能减少环境中塑料的使用。羊毛可制成绳索；这是一个创新产品，但它可行吗？重要的是要了解，它是否具有足够的拉伸强度，并且可以在行业内使用而不会对环境造成破坏吗？可持续绳索开展的工作已经回答了这两个问题，现在寻求开发该产品，以广泛应用于海水养殖、永续农业和生态系统更新，方法是采用可持续发展的商业产品，采用已确定的特征并以最佳方式部署它们。在过去的一年里，我一直在研究羊毛绳的价值，寻找供应链，现在我在英国拥有一家制造羊毛绳的商业企业，赢得了 2022 年羊毛创新奖\。这项创新是通过水产和海水养殖用绳索的降解率和临界强度应用来捕捉活力和寿命，以提供塑料绳的替代品并减轻塑料污染。羊毛绳有能力帮助战略环境和社会政策，例如英国创新战略、英国品牌、可持续发展目标和提升英国农村水平。完整的工艺流程在英国仍然可用，使用英国原材料在英国制造。许多其他市场已经出现；然而，成功将在于利用该应用程序寻求进行的研究。