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the perfect look. but beneath the surface lies a murkier side. for every pristine peak, broken boards and piles of cheap polystyrene dumped on our beaches. it s really disheartening to see this amount of waste come forward. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea air, but the industry relies on toxic chemicals, producing suits and boards derived from oil. and living that dream of being at one with nature is getting more and more difficult. we do want to encourage people to get outdoors, but at the same time, at what cost to the planet? so i want to know, can surfing clean up its act? i ve surfed for more than a decade, but this is my first day on the water for over three years. new year s day 2020 and the fin of my board went into my face. i was left with 16 stitches, and it has taken me this long to start trying to get over my fear. today i ve come to the calmer waters of an inland surf lake near bristol to try and start getting back my love of surfing. as a journalist coverin ....
pristine peak, broken boards and piles of cheap polystyrene dump on our beaches. it’s dump on our beaches. it s reall dump on our beaches. it s really disheartening to see this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh - this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea - this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea air, l may enjoy the fresh sea air, but the industry relies on toxic chemicals, producing suits and boards derived from oil and living that dream of being at one with nature is getting more and more difficult. getting more and more difficult. we do want to encourage difficult. we do want to encourage people - difficult. we do want to encourage people to i difficult. we do want to | encourage people to get outdoors, but it the same time, at what cost to the planet? so i want to know, can surfing clean up its act? i have served for more than a decade, b ....
This is probably one of the most toxic things and making boards is the spraying, because you are using either isocyanates or you are using the cellulose, and cellulose isn t very good for your lungs or your skin or anything like that. you ve got to have proper fume filter mask on, you ve got to have that. isocyanates will mess your eyes up as well. so probably a bit of my vision now is coming over 35, 36 years of using isocyanates. then there is the industry s waste. it will be landfill at the end of the day? it ll be landfill. we are so far advanced in certain things and so far behind another ways. the worst thing at the moment is the little boogie boards, the cheap ones that break. there are hundreds of them around. they all end up in landfill. that is the sad thing if you want to make something, make it last. and this is where much of that giant wave of surf waste comes from beginner s boards thrown ....
And this is where much of that giant wave of surf waste comes from beginner s boards thrown away after a day at the beach. some beaches have these recycling bins, have a look at this one. someone s just put this in here. this one, brand new, someone has dumped it after their holiday. this looks like it was practically new, but snapped. and this is just the very tip of the waste iceberg. these are boards collected onjust a handful of beaches in cornwall. this is quite typical, really. neil hembrow, 0cean recovery project manager for keep britain tidy, was out on the beaches of cornwall during the heatwave last summer looking for boards that could be recycled. that one has completely had it. probably this board was made over the other side of the world a few months ago, and it has been on a container ship for a month, it has then been driven from a port ....