Sustainable Surf

Volcom Pipe Pro Sustainability Report

Read the full report from the 2013 Volcom Pipe Pro, which has been verified as a Deep Blue Surfing Event.
Earth Day release of the Waste to Waves film (revised)

The new edit of The Story of Waste to Waves. It’s been updated after our first year of operations, and shows what happens to collected foam. Visit http://www.wastetowaves.org to learn more. Thanks to Reef, The Wuss Productions, and Voda Films for producing this slick edit.
SIMA endorses the ECOBOARD Project!

IT’S OFFICIAL FOLKS - The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) has endorsed the ECOBOARD Project as an innovative new resource for its Board Builder members to use. Ok, so what’s that mean? So for the for the few of you who didn’t attend the program’s recent launch party in San Fransisco – The ECOBOARD Project [...]
GREEN MACHINE from Torrey Meister. How do you like the way his ECOBOARD Project labeled board surfs?

Torrey Meister riding an ECOBOARD Project labeled surfboard
Waste to Waves — Turn your trash to slash!
Our 99 Percent meets 1% for the Planet

Here at nonprofit Sustainable Surf, we really give it our all – or at least 99% of it – working to help bring about a more sustainable future for the culture and sport of surfing. Which is why we are so happy to announce that we have become an approved Partner with 1% For the [...]
ECOBOARD Project – What does a more sustainable surfboard look like?

What materials can be used to build a better surfboard…

SURFER covers Waste to Waves program’s progress

We Ran – Not Walked… to pick up the new copy of the June issue of SURFER Mag, and excitedly flipped through the pages (#16 of the board guide section) to read their story all about our Waste to Waves recycling program, which is focused on recycling EPS foam packaging material (aka – “styrofoam”) into [...]

TW Biz covers Deep Blue Surfing

Check out this recent feature in Transworld Biz that discusses how the 2013 Volcom Pipe pro was designated as our latest Deep Blue Surfing Event program. So cool to see that our DBSE program is now part of Volcom’s corporate strategy for reaching it’s own sustainability goals, and that they plan to make both of [...]

ECOBOARD Project in TW Biz

Come check out this in-depth feature story from Transworld Biz (the surf industry’s leading business publication) about the creation of the ECOBOARD Project, the endorsement of the program by SIMA (Surf Industry Manufactures Association), and what the future looks like for the use of more sustainable surfboard materials. See full story here! And yep, Channel [...]

OUTSIDE Mag covers our Party

Outside Magazine attended our ECOBOARD Project Launch Party. They love the goal and ambition of our project, and wrote about our plan to help the surf industry become a leader in sustainability. We are stoked that the mainstream press is starting to cover surfing and sustainability. It’s been long overdue. Journalists like to lead with [...]