The Environment
& Diverse Surfboards
The Environment we
surf in has always been a beautiful place. Growing up
in the South Australian wild coast of the Yorke
Peninsula I learnt to look after the earth as best i
could little by little. As one company we cannot change
the worlds trends & general misuse of the
environment. I find the best we can do is leave the
smallest footprint of effect on our past.
The way we go about our surfboard building process is
what we find to be the simple & effective way
without enforcing our views & beliefs. From Eco
friendly printing inks for our board art instead of
nasty paint sprays & buying stonger more Durable
raw materials. As we are without effective options We
do do use poisons & toxic chemicals. Currently
There is no better performing alternatives as yet. (we
are willing to try them if you show us a better way) So
What can we do to reduce our wastes etc?
Did you realize when everyone makes a surfboard that
40% of the raw materials purchased to produce your
awesome board is wasted! Starting with the foam removed
from the blank thru to the resin that drips of the
glass to the dust sanded of the finish coat etc etc. It
all ends up in the appropriate waste facilitys. At
Diverse We do our best to keep emissions & dust
down to a minimum. But everyday we see boards made from
here & all over the world that are a few weeks old,
they look like old golf balls. So if you get a board
every 3 months from some of these board makers because
your old one has fallen apart you send all that waste
to the bin each board.
What we prefer to do is Glass your board a little
heavier (ie stronger), Shape the board from better
grade foam & let it cure for several weeks, you
will now have a board that lasts for several years. We
even guarantee to give you 50% trade in every 12 months
to back the quality & life of the board. Your old
one gets sold on to the next person who can get loads
of satisfaction from a great durable product! That is
Responsible surfboard manufacturing. We also have
systems in place to donate your old boards to the kids
of the Solomon Islands, Fiji & New Guinea. If this
is not good enough for you... Pony up & pay me to
make you a beautiful wooden board made from plantation
grown Paulonia here in Australia. You will have it to
pass on to your Grandchildren... & the beach will
not look like this for there
children!