RECHIP FLOOD DEFENCE – PROVIDING PROTECTION AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT WHILST SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT

洪水和废塑料污染是两个全球性的环境灾难，而且还在继续恶化。洪水每年影响英国约17000处房产，造成13亿英镑的损失。此外，价值2000亿英镑的520万（六分之一）房产/资产位于洪水风险3a/3b区（FRZ），每年洪水可能性>1%，对受影响的人造成相当大的破坏和痛苦。有限的可开发土地是实现国家住房建设目标的最大障碍（每年需要30万英镑才能实现目标）。为了达到政府的目标，地方当局批准的10%的开发申请现在都在高FRZ-规划指导要求使用非渗透性建筑材料，但缺乏有效的外门防洪屏障使这些毫无意义。气候变化预计将增加洪水的发生率和影响，每年需要10亿英镑的政府投资来维持目前的防御水平。同时，英国的废塑料废弃物（WPA）约为5.2MNT/年，到2030年将增加到约6.3MNT/年。由于中国2018年的WPA进口禁令，英国的再处理缺口为35万吨/年。尽管这两个问题的紧迫性和规模，但有效防止洪水或有效回收/再利用废塑料的技术进步尚未实现，正在开发的技术成本高，宽度有限，定制（额外费用），Rechip的跨学科团队专业知识，包括建筑和工程，旨在克服现有方法的局限性，提供世界上第一个也是唯一一个由100%使用专利的Rechip（TM）技术的再生塑料，无需工具或培训即可在几分钟内安装，并提供100%的防水效果。该解决方案具有新颖的部署和密封系统，确保0%泄漏，单板保护高达800 mm的高度。Rechip的技术利用废塑料制造出坚固的刚性面板。每个面板使用相当于660个塑料瓶。这种精制塑料是一种新的可加工材料，可以转化为坚固的刚性面板。在Innovate UK的支持下，需要进行为期12个月的研究计划，以提供内部和外部测试和认证的预商业原型。如果成功，该解决方案有可能真正彻底改变防洪，全球开发潜力可实现191：1的效益成本比，中央政府设定的目标是5：1。该项目将为Recip提供出口导向型增长，健康的利润和后续的纳税申报，增加就业机会和进一步的研发投资机会。

Flooding and waste plastic pollution are 2 global environmental catastrophes that are continuing to get worse.Flood damage affects c.17000 UK properties per year, costing £1.3billion. Additionally, 5.2million(1-in-6) properties/assets, worth £200billion are in Flood Risk 3a/3b Zones (FRZ's) with \>1%/year probability of flooding causing considerable disruption&distress to those affected.Limited availability of development land is SINGLE BIGGEST barrier to meeting national housebuilding targets (300K needed/year to address targets). To meet government targets, 10% of development applications approved by Local Authorities are now in high-FRZs- planning guidance requiring use of non-permeable building materials, but the lack of effective flood-barriers for external doors renders these pointless.Climate change is expected to increase flooding incidence&impact with £1billion/year government investment required to maintain current defence levels.Meanwhile, UK's waste plastic arisings (WPA) ~5.2MNt/year, is set to increase to ~6.3MNt/year by 2030\. Due to China's 2018 WPA import ban, UK has a reprocessing gap of 350,000t/year.Despite the urgency and scale of both of these issues, technological advancements which effectively prevent flooding or efficiently recycle/reuse waste plastic are not yet available, with those under development costly, limited in width, bespoke (further expense), made from non-recyclables.Rechip's interdisciplinary team expertise including construction and engineering seeks to overcome limitations of current methods to deliver the first and only flood defence system in the world made from 100% recycled plastic using patented Rechip(tm) technology that can be installed without tools or training in minutes and provides 100% effectiveness from water ingress. This solution has a novel deployment and sealing system ensuring 0% leakage with a single board protecting up to 800mm in height. Rechip's technology takes waste plastic to create a solid rigid panel. Each panel uses the equivalent of 660 plastic bottles. This refined plastic is a new workable material that can be transformed in to a solid rigid panel.With support from Innovate UK, a 12-month programme of research is required to deliver a pre-commercial prototype internally and externally tested and certified. If successful, the solution has the potential to truly revolutionise flood protection with global exploitation potential delivering 191:1 benefit-to-cost ratio, with 5:1 being the target set my central government. The project will deliver export led growth for Rechip, healthy profits and follow on tax returns, increased employment and further opportunity for R&D investment.