There's something fishy about this skateboard
Published on by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor in Entrepreneur
From fishy to funky - here's how Chilean company Bureo recycles unwanted fishing nets into skateboards and sunglasses.
A Bueo skateboard in surfing haven Punta de Lobos in Chile. Discarded fishing nets make up 10 per cent of plastic pollution in the ocean. Image: Bureo.
A Chilean company is taking beachcombing to a new level. Not only is it cleaning up the oceans of plastic, it is turning the materials into sunglasses and skateboards.
Bureo, a three-year-old business that turns discarded fishing nets into new products, has two models of skateboards, sunglasses, a partnership with activewear label Patagonia, and a recycling programme for discarded fishing nets in 20 communities spanning the entire coast of Chile.
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Sources: by Hannah Koh, Wednesday 7 December 2016
Taxonomy
- Surfboards
- Marine litter