Green Boating and Marina Products & Services*

*NOTE: Georgia Strait Alliance has not tested any of these products for authenticity of claims. Please use your own discretion. Refer to TerraChoice for information on the Environmental Choice Program’s EcoLogo ™ products.

Books:

Author Clyde Ford has released a new book on environmentally responsible boating called Boat Green - 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters. Inspiring, practical and pragmatic this handbook is a terrific resource for all boaters who want to leave a "green wake". Click here for more information and to order online. 15% of the proceeds goes to Georgia Strait Alliance's marine conservation work!

 

 

 

Marine sanitation:

• Inner Harbour Technologies Inc. - customized environmental pump-out systems
• Sun-Mar - mobile composting toilets
• Envirolet - go anywhere composting toilets
• Air Head Environmental Toilet
• West Marine - treatment systems and holding tanks

Boat cleaning and miscellaneous products:

• Oillift - Save the Oceans Inc.
• Alex Milne Associates Ltd. Natural Marine products
• Environmental Building Science Inc. Oil Lift Products
• Seventh Generation. Non-toxic products

Docks and flotation:

• Enviro Float Manufacturing - environmentally friendly flotation for docks and floats

Stormwater:

• Cascade - Polluted stormwater treatment
• Hayco -  Stormwater management and native plantings

Spill prevention:

• Zorbie Products Ltd. - Spill Response and supplies

• West Coast Spill Supplies - Spill Kits, Absorbents & spill response products.

• Fuel/Air separators - to eliminate vent line overflow during refuelling
• Mycelx Technology - a variety of fuel and lubricant spill protection
• Liberty Bay Solutions - Overboard Oil Protection System (OOPS), bilge oil/water separator
• Wasp Fueling Systems - for fuel docks and mobile fuellers, to prevent burps, blowbacks and spills
• Muir Lock Monster - Petro Barrier Systems Inc. preventing fuel and related chemical spills

Hulls and anti-fouling:

• Alternative Fouling Control Systems (pdf) - Environmental Options for Bottom Painting (2008).
• E Paint - ecofriendly bottom paints that use a natural chemical reaction of peroxides to inhibit attachment by marine life
• Alex Milne Associates Ltd. (pdf) - environmentally friendly hull care products

Disposal Services:

• BC Recycling Hotline
• Used Oil Recycling
• Earth 911

General Products:

• Greenboatstuff.com - environmentally friendly boating supplies

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