Steel from warship to be recycled
Steel from warship to be recycled
The HMS Fearless, a British Navy warship launched in 1963 and withdrawn from service in 2002, is to be recycled in Belgium. The ship weighs 11,060 tonnes. From this, almost 7,000 tonnes of waste and scrap, including steel, will be extracted and sorted.
The Ghent-based firm Van Heyghen Recycling will take a year to carry out the task. The company's shipbreaking yard is one of only three in Europe with a 'green ship recycling' label for safe and environmentally sound management of ship dismantling.
Around 6,700 tonnes of steel from the vessel will be smelted at the ArcelorMittal plant outside Ghent.
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