Sustainable Fibre Solutions - Wool Rope

我的名字叫凯特·德鲁里，在过去的30年里，我一直在农业行业工作，在农场和辅助行业工作。我也是第一位当选的女性羊毛生产商，英国羊毛营销委员会的董事会成员。除了经营我的企业，我还参与推广英国的农业和研究。我想认识到羊毛绳索对环境挑战的好处，并为社会创造机会，让人们获得并提高对英国羊毛这种美丽的自然产品的需求。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，缺乏商业层面上可用的北半球天然纤维，以及英国农民从他们的羊毛中获得的低价值。迄今为止，羊毛是一种未得到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。羊毛可以制成绳索；这是一种创新产品，但它可行吗？重要的是要了解，它是否有足够的抗拉强度，是否可以在行业内使用而不存在破坏环境的风险？可持续绳索公司的工作已经回答了这两个问题，现在寻求通过利用可持续公司的商业产品，利用已确定的特征并以最佳方式部署产品，以广泛应用于海产养殖、永久养殖和生态系统更新。在过去的一年里，我一直在研究羊毛制成的绳索的价值，采购供应链，现在我在英国拥有一家制造羊毛绳索的商业企业，赢得了2022年羊毛创新奖。这项创新是通过降解率和用于水产养殖的绳索的临界强度来捕捉其生存能力、寿命和临界强度，以提供塑料绳的替代方案并减轻塑料污染。羊毛绳索能够帮助制定战略环境和社会政策，如英国创新战略、英国品牌、可持续发展目标和改善英国农村地区。在英国，使用英国原材料制造的完整工艺仍然可用。已经出现了许多额外的市场；然而，成功的将是利用这一应用程序寻求进行的研究。

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.