ECO SURFBOARDS Qualifying Criteria

Level One

ECOBOARD Level One makes it easy for any board builder to get started making ECOBOARDS. By using one Qualified Material (core or resin), a board will have a significant reduction in environmental footprint without affecting performance, durability, or quality.

A Qualified Material must meet at least one of the following requirements:

  • Plant-based, low to zero VOC resin with at least 19% bio-carbon content in the fully cured resin (the sum of all component parts)

Core with at least 25% recycled or plant-based content, or wood constituting at least 50% of the core by weight

Qualified Materials

      

An ECOBOARD is a high-performance sustainable board. ECOBOARDS have the same technical performance attributes as any modern water-sport board, while having reduced environmental and toxic impacts – through the use of more sustainable materials and manufacturing processes.

When you see a board displaying the ECOBOARD :

  1. A measurably reduced carbon footprint
  • Renewable, recycled and/or up-cycled material inputs

Uses materials and processes that reduce toxicity during manufacturing

ECOBOARD Level – ECOBOARDS.  

To carry the ECOBOARD Level One designation, a board must:

Use at least one Qualified Material in its construction

Plant-based, low to zero VOC resin* with at least 19% bio-carbon content

Core with at least 25% recycled or plant-based content, or wood constituting at least 50% of the board by weight

Be manufactured by an approved ECOBOARD builder

*Bio-content based on the fully cured resin (the sum of all component parts)

                                                        Bio-resin being applied to a surfboard

Two recycled foam surfboard blanks


6oz Fiberglass following the application of artistic bio-resin.

NEXT GENERATION SURFBOARD MATERIALS


Can ‘going green’ actually produce a modern high performance surfboard? It turns out that the answer is ‘yes’, because products like recycled foam blanks and bio-resin epoxy laminates have equivalent strength, durability and superior flex properties. Surfers and Shapers are giving extremely positive reports of how boards surf (and shape) using these materials.

But is it necessary to worry about the environmental impact of surfboard? The short answer is “yes”, because oceans and the waves we love are under severe threat from human impact on the environment.

  For starters – environmental impacts from surfboards & surfboard production can be broken down into two basic categories: their CO2 footprint (which contributes to the negative impacts from global Climate Change), and the toxicity level of the materials used to make them (which can pollute out water, air and soil, and impact the health of humans that use the materials). For example, using data from Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) studies of surfboards, the estimated CO2 footprint of a typical surfboard made in the USA is surprisingly large.

DEFINING AN ‘ECOBOARD’

Current benchmark for receiving an ECOBOARD Project -Verification logo, requires the surfboard to be made from at least one of the following components:

A foam blank made from at least 25% recycled foam or at least 25% biological content*

An alternative blank structure made from majority content (75%) renewable materials such as wood, bamboo, or similar types of structural bio-content.

Resin made from at least 25% biological content*

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