You wiped out on a heavy wave and your shred stick snapped nearly in half, a fracture too severe to repair. Or maybe your board’s just old and sluggish, full of dents, dings and water. If you don’t want to send your used-up surfboard to a landfill — where it could be excavated in nearly the same shape by an archaeologist in the year 2217 — what can you do instead? Go smaller Your board could come back as a Mini Simmons. Photo: Courtesy of Zita Films 360 Peel off your surfboard’s hard candy shell to expose the softer blank inside, then reshape it into a smaller board. Mini Simmons, anyone? Watch how it’s done. Go even smaller
Photo by @nathancapaldiphotography A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Jun 25, 2017 at 8:43am PDT
Handplanes can make even crappy waves fun to ride, and your dearly departed surfboard can become enough handplanes for everyone in your family. Enjoy recycles broken surfboards into tiny new wave-riding machines, and they’ll take your old wetsuits too. Make art, not trash
Started this painting. At Art Center Gallery until 9 pm. I’ll be painting all night. Come see me! #artexhibit #surfart @artcentergallery #surfboardart #westminstermall A post shared by Drew Brophy (@drewbrophy) on Jun 23, 2017 at 5:39pm PDT
Turn your surfboard into a canvas and paint a piece you’ll be proud to hang on the wall. Prep first by cleaning the surface thoroughly and sanding it lightly so the paint will stick. Not much of an artist? Try these easy basic stripes. Sit on it
Surfboard chair spotted at a California festival. Photo: Cynthia Replogle Craft a unique piece of furniture by turning your old surfboard into a chair, a bench or even a table. Find more ideas in the 1000 Surfboard Graveyard. Grind it up
Enjoy the Buddha #1 waste polyurethane foam dust and cement. So stoked. A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Mar 17, 2017 at 3:26pm PDT
Enjoy mixes waste foam dust and plastic beach trash into cement to form Buddha statues. And Rerip partnered with a construction company that tested ground boards as concrete filler for patios and parking stops. Run your stick through a shredder, mix up the pieces in cement and cast an army of gnomes to guard your backyard. That’s not recycling; this is recycling
Will mushrooms be part of your next surfboard? Photo: Courtesy of Delo Those ideas aren’t really recycling, you say. Call them upcycling or downcycling; what you want to know is how to actually reuse your surfboard. Unfortunately, that technology isn’t quite ready for prime time. Although you can buy an Ecoboard now, true recycling requires an even greener board to start. Ecovative has grown blanks from mushrooms, and Connora developed a method to recycle carbon fiber laminates. Recyclable handplanes and snowboards are already here, and it’s only a matter of time until you’ll be able to buy a truly recyclable surfboard. More surf gear stories from GrindTV A complete guide to buying a used surfboard Removing old wax from your surfboard has never been easier
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You wiped out on a heavy wave and your shred stick snapped nearly in half, a fracture too severe to repair. Or maybe your board’s just old and sluggish, full of dents, dings and water.
If you don’t want to send your used-up surfboard to a landfill — where it could be excavated in nearly the same shape by an archaeologist in the year 2217 — what can you do instead?
Go smaller
Peel off your surfboard’s hard candy shell to expose the softer blank inside, then reshape it into a smaller board. Mini Simmons, anyone? Watch how it’s done.
Go even smaller
Photo by @nathancapaldiphotography A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Jun 25, 2017 at 8:43am PDT
Photo by @nathancapaldiphotography
A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Jun 25, 2017 at 8:43am PDT
Handplanes can make even crappy waves fun to ride, and your dearly departed surfboard can become enough handplanes for everyone in your family.
Enjoy recycles broken surfboards into tiny new wave-riding machines, and they’ll take your old wetsuits too.
Make art, not trash
Started this painting. At Art Center Gallery until 9 pm. I’ll be painting all night. Come see me! #artexhibit #surfart @artcentergallery #surfboardart #westminstermall A post shared by Drew Brophy (@drewbrophy) on Jun 23, 2017 at 5:39pm PDT
Started this painting. At Art Center Gallery until 9 pm. I’ll be painting all night. Come see me! #artexhibit #surfart @artcentergallery #surfboardart #westminstermall
A post shared by Drew Brophy (@drewbrophy) on Jun 23, 2017 at 5:39pm PDT
Turn your surfboard into a canvas and paint a piece you’ll be proud to hang on the wall. Prep first by cleaning the surface thoroughly and sanding it lightly so the paint will stick.
Not much of an artist? Try these easy basic stripes.
Sit on it
Craft a unique piece of furniture by turning your old surfboard into a chair, a bench or even a table. Find more ideas in the 1000 Surfboard Graveyard.
Grind it up
Enjoy the Buddha #1 waste polyurethane foam dust and cement. So stoked. A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Mar 17, 2017 at 3:26pm PDT
Enjoy the Buddha #1 waste polyurethane foam dust and cement. So stoked.
A post shared by Ed Lewis (@enjoyhandplanes) on Mar 17, 2017 at 3:26pm PDT
Enjoy mixes waste foam dust and plastic beach trash into cement to form Buddha statues. And Rerip partnered with a construction company that tested ground boards as concrete filler for patios and parking stops.
Run your stick through a shredder, mix up the pieces in cement and cast an army of gnomes to guard your backyard.
That’s not recycling; this is recycling
Those ideas aren’t really recycling, you say. Call them upcycling or downcycling; what you want to know is how to actually reuse your surfboard.
Unfortunately, that technology isn’t quite ready for prime time. Although you can buy an Ecoboard now, true recycling requires an even greener board to start.
Ecovative has grown blanks from mushrooms, and Connora developed a method to recycle carbon fiber laminates.
Recyclable handplanes and snowboards are already here, and it’s only a matter of time until you’ll be able to buy a truly recyclable surfboard.
More surf gear stories from GrindTV
A complete guide to buying a used surfboard
Removing old wax from your surfboard has never been easier
For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube!
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