{"id":18151,"date":"2014-11-14T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T17:50:25","slug":"styrofoam-recyclable-yes-bitchin-surfboards-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/styrofoam-recyclable-yes-bitchin-surfboards-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Styrofoam Recyclable? Yes… Into Bitchin’ Surfboards [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is America Recycles Day<\/a>, and given our new focus on waste issues,\u00a0we should probably take note. While we do want to encourage you to make as much use as possible of that blue bin, you’ve no doubt got materials that your local recycling company won’t take. In many places, polystyrene foam (aka Styrofoam) is one of those materials. So, is Styrofoam recyclable anywhere… or it just a material destined to take up space in landfills?<\/p>\n

Polystyrene can be recycled<\/a>, but the economics often don’t work for recycling companies<\/a>… so it ends up getting tossed. Sustainable Surf <\/a>hated seeing all of that material (which is often used to form surfboard blanks) go to waste, so the non-profit teamed up with a number of other organization and companies to create Waste to Waves<\/a>, a recycling program\u00a0that turns used polystyrene foam into surfboard blanks that, apparently, surfers just love. Take a look at their story:<\/p>\n