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，在农场和辅助行业工作。我也是英国羊毛营销委员会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。我想认识到羊毛绳对环境挑战的好处，并为社会创造机会，以获得和提高对英国羊毛的需求，这是一种美丽的天然产品。创新将寻求解决环境，经济和社会问题。这些因素包括但不限于，海水养殖业中缺乏聚丙烯的替代品，商业上缺乏北方天然纤维，以及英国农民获得的羊毛价值低。迄今为止，羊毛是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。羊毛可以制成绳子;这是一种创新产品，但它可行吗？重要的是要了解，它是否具有足够的拉伸强度，以及它是否可以在行业内使用而不会对环境造成损害？Sustainable Rope的工作已经回答了这两个问题，现在寻求开发该产品，通过采用已确定的特性并以最佳方式部署它们，使用可持续公司的商业产品，在海水养殖，permaculture和生态系统更新中广泛应用。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，我现在在英国有一家制造羊毛绳的商业企业，赢得了2022年羊毛创新奖。创新是通过降解率和临界强度应用捕捉水产和海水养殖用绳的可行性、寿命，为塑料绳提供替代品，减轻塑料污染。羊毛绳有能力帮助战略性环境和社会政策，如英国创新战略、英国品牌、可持续发展目标和英国农村水平提升。整个过程仍然可以在英国使用英国原材料在英国制造。许多额外的市场已经出现;然而，成功将是利用本申请寻求进行的研究。

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.