PLEASE PLEASE Recycle & Reuse Your Boards

We at Quiver are very much in support for trying to encourage all surfers out there to try and do their bit for the environment and help to reduce landfill waste as much as we can.

Currently there are up to 63 million surfboards in use worldwide. At the end of their lives, they will become landfill. Surfboards cannot be recycled.

Have you heard of the 1000 surfboard graveyard project? Well the aims of this project is to highlight landfill as societies graveyard for material objects like surfboards and in doing so intends to generate fresh conversations on whether we can better manage this waste.



*(The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw, 2005, p605, reports that the world wide surfing population is estimated to between 17 million (Surfing Australia) and 23 million (International Surfing Association). Research by Decarbonated Sports, 2011 estimates that the average surfer has 2.75 surfboards.)


So to get your recycle + reuse thoughts in use, here is a collection of ideas for reusing your old/broken surfboards to get you started:

FEATURE WALL:www.herbiefletcher.com

PAINT IT

ART:Anthony Pelto:http://pelto.com.au

CHALKBOARD:

Use chalkboard paints to transform your surfboard.

FENCE:

LETTER BOX:

CHAIR: www.karlsgoodwood.com