Sweden – Environmental services – Upphandling av insamling, återvinning eller destruktion av fritidsbåtar och tvåtaktsmotorer med förgasare genom subvention

Sweden lacks a long-term and coherent national system for the management and recycling of leisure boats and two-stroke engines with carburetors. However, there are several actors who accept and scrap leisure boats in exchange for a compensation from the person surrendering the boat. The responsibility and costs associated with scrapping lie with the last owner and can in some cases result in exhausted leisure boats being abandoned. There are already many leisure boats with unknown owners both on municipal land and with non-profit associations (such as boat clubs). Today, there may be up to 400 000 boats approaching their "best-before date" and up to 35 000 already abandoned leisure boats. Leisure boats that are not managed and recycled can contribute to further littering and pollution of natural and aquatic environments. Many of the boats are over 40 years old and are therefore approaching the expected end of their lifespan. Most are plastic boats that have been dumped or risk being dumped in nature.