I’m not some kind of crazy eco-warrior. Sure, I do all the basics: recycling, not getting plastic bags from the grocery store, picking up beach trash if I see it, etcetera, but I’m not leading marches or dumping vats of melted plastic over the battlement walls onto invading big-plastic reps, or screaming green obscenities into a megaphone made from recycled tofu.
I do however, like to build things. I like to take old things, rip them apart, and make news things. In fact, I’m in the middle of building a tiny little house that is largely made of repurposed materials–skylights made from old sliding glass doors, tables made from pallets, and floors made from old bricks, which, if you can believe it, came from Leonardo DiCaprio’s old patio, which means I basically know him.
I also like to surf. I figure I’m probably an average cross-section of a large part of the surfing community, so it stands to reason that there are a lot of people that are into similar things as me, and building new surfboards out of old surfboards is a perfect mixture of recycling, making things, and surfing. Why aren’t we all doing this?
The surfing community is a hypocritical one, for the most part. We’re preaching about saving the oceans while floating around in them on things that kill the oceans. And, like the guy in the video says: “If foam is so easy to work with, why do we keep making more of it instead of reusing the stuff that we have?”
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