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If you are in the marine business, enjoy boating or are a watersports enthusiast, the Green Blue has practical advice and information to help you think and act in an environmentally conscious way. Inland or coastal, individual or boating business, there is something here for you.
By taking a few simple steps, you can keep future costs down and sustain high quality water and local environments. Backed by the British Marine Federation and the Royal Yachting Association, The Green Blue is testing out practical projects, conducting research and providing advice, to help recreational boating go green.
The recent shenanigans of the EU have left us facing the prospect of paying full road duty on our marine diesel, and thrown the current fuel supply problems into sharp relief for all boaters.
With oil prices soaring at over $100 a barrel, we all have to face the fact that we are dealing with a finite resource, and the search for alternatives is well and truly on.
With this in mind, The RYA and BMF’s Green Blue project has been busy on your behalf looking some of the more environmentally friendly options.
In the last ten years wehave become much wiser to the fact that the environment is under threat from a wide range of issues from pollution to global warming. The Green Blue environmental programme was developed in response to this.
Three years later we have a programme packed full of best practice advice, great publications and useful tools. The Green Blue has been recognised by Government and trade associations as being an leading initiative programme.
So what has The Green Blue been up to for the last three years?
Located upstream of the Bristol Channel on the tidal River Avon, Bristol’s historic floating harbour is an enclosed freshwater environment. Held back by lock gates, the harbour is fed by the freshwater of the River’s Avon & Frome, thus creating the “Floating” harbour, unaffected by tides. A voluntary survey, which took place in 2005, found over 10.4% of Bristol’s boaters were discharging raw sewage and 65.6% discharging grey water into the Harbour regularly.
The Get On Board campaign is a collaborative approach to improve environmental quality in and around Bristol’s historic floating harbour over the next two years and includes raising awareness and installing four new pump-out facilities. Launched in 2007, a progress report from the first 6 months is now available to download.
