Sustainable Fibre Solutions - Wool Rope

我叫凯特·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。我也是第一位当选为英国羊毛营销委员会董事会成员的女性羊毛生产商。除了经营我的生意，我还参与了促进英国农业和研究的工作。我想意识到羊毛绳对环境挑战的好处，并为社会创造机会，提高对英国羊毛的需求，这是一种美丽的天然产品。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，海水养殖业缺乏聚丙烯的替代品，缺乏北半球可用于商业层面的天然纤维，以及英国农民从羊毛中获得的低价值。迄今为止，羊毛是一种未被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。羊毛可以制成绳子；这是一个创新的产品，但它可行吗？重要的是要了解，它是否具有足够的抗拉强度，是否可以在行业内使用而不会对环境造成损害？可持续绳索公司开展的工作已经回答了这两个问题，现在正在寻求开发产品，以广泛应用于海水养殖、永续养殖和生态系统更新，方法是利用可持续发展公司的商业产品，利用已确定的特性，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，现在我在英国有一家生产羊毛绳的商业企业，并获得了2022年羊毛创新奖。创新之处在于，通过降解率和临界强度来捕捉绳索在水产养殖中的生存能力、寿命，为塑料绳索提供了一种替代品，并减轻了塑料污染。羊毛绳有能力帮助战略环境和社会政策，如英国创新战略，品牌英国，可持续发展目标和水平的农村英国。整个过程在英国仍然可以使用，使用英国的原材料在英国制造。许多新的市场已经出现；然而，成功将是利用这一应用程序寻求开展的研究。

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.