Sustainable surfboard


Sustainable surfboard

(Automatic translation from Dutch) Professional surfers seem to carve their board from a kind of plastic foam. suatainable surfboardMike Sheldrake designed his board with 3D-software, the board to be made out of paperboard.
The inside of the surfboard has been made of approximately 400 small bits of paperboard. In a flexible way, very strong and relatively environment-friendly material.

The paperboard has been poured in transparent fiberglass, I'm not sure if that is an environment-friendly material or process. On the photograph above you can see the paper-carcass shine through.
Innovative, maybe unintended, use of sustainable material. Almost everything we see around us can be made with materials that will be more sustainable. Make way for the  cradle-to-cradle-surfboard.

Picture of the board in action in Surfermagazine

 


[Original post in Dutch on Ecocool.nl: Duurzame surfplank van karton]

 


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