Hello All

I am compiling an submission to an article at the request of a East Coast surf media outlet, on the how surfers are feeling with the apparent contradiction of being an environmental friendly past-time with the use of highly toxic greenhouse gas polluting epoxy products that are making there way into the surfing industry.
I must point out that this has nothing to do with the issue with Oz made v imports just the production process and materials used.

As with the traditional process with the polyester resins and poly blanks which are all hydrocarbon based, the epoxy boards come from the same base source but have a largely different route (more refining) to become the product we are seeing on the shop boardracks/web based outlets.

I am not wanting to make anyone feel bad but just your opinions on how surfboardriders
feel about this major shift in equipment being used. Its not about pricing or who manufactures the epoxy products.

Have we as surfers become major hypocrites?

To sum up what we use at the moment

Rashies = Hydrocarbon Based
Leggies = Hydrocarbon Based
Wetties = Hydrocarbon Based
Surfboards = Hydrocarbon Based
DeckGrip = Hydrocarbon Based
Then we have wax and sunscreen etc let alone the fuel we use going down south ,flying to Indo etc

So over to you, do you care , coun’dt give a toss , uneasy etc

If you have technical questions about the products I can answer most ,not all and although I work in the industry (Part-time) I do not have a major vested interest in which ever way the market goes.

Look forward to the responses.

Cheers

Benton Moran