NOW, DON'T MISS THIS EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO RECYCLE WASTE EPS FOAM INTO SOMETHING REALLY USEFUL!
SURFRIDER CHAPTER MEETING, JANUARY 10
Please, join our Chapter meeting on January 10 at Simpkins Swim Center on 17th Avenue in Live Oak to learn about a very cool program: WASTE to WAVES! The meeting kicks off at 7:00 PM.
Yes, we're talking about something positive to do with all that EPS foam packaging that everyone gets in products they buy, especially during the Holiday season. Listen up now, OK?
First thing to do: Collect All of Your Waste EPS Foam!
You probably got it when you bought a new TV, computer, or some furniture. Most cities don't let you recycle this, and our coast is no different. It just feels wrong to throw it into the trash can. A much higher use for this foam is to turn it directly into a new surfboard blank. That's right: A NEW SURFBOARD BLANK!
The program only accepts clean, white, Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam. This is exactly the same foam used inside EPS/epoxy surfboards, and it can be recycled many times into new EPS.
Please learn exactly what types of foam can be donated, and what types cannot. In essence, it must be hard white foam used in packaging. If the foam has been used to hold food, or is soft or flexible, we can't make surfboards out of it..
TURN YOUR TRASH INTO SPLASH!
Our monthly chapter general meeting fill feature Sustainable Surf's Waste to Waves program. The program collects EPS polystyrene and turns it into surf boards. VERY COOL!
Chapter Chair Dustin Macdonald welcomes guest speaker Sustainable Surf Co-Founder and former SF Chapter volunteer, Kevin Whilden
www.wastetowaves.org
As many of you remember our Santa Cruz Chapter has long been involved with the polystyrene issue and, like you, we are deeply frustrated that no way to recycle this stuff exists in our county through normal channels.
In fact, we are still working on strengthening polystyrene food container bans around the area. Visit our meeting and sign a group letter to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in support of upgrading the existing polystyrene ordinance. Surfrider makes is EASY for you to get active!
While large scale recycling of polystyrene ("Styrofoam") products is not available in Santa Cruz or nearby counties, this limited program is an excellent solution for the disposal problem in the mean time, and we urge all of you to give it a go!
Remember: No food-stained items; No "peanuts"; only clean uncontaminated EPS blocks.
Hear the drill at our everyone-invited meeting, and learn where local drop-off spots are.
HELP GET THIS STUFF OFF OUR BEACHES, OCEANS, AND WAVES AND OUT OF THE LANDFILL, TOO!
