It is the little things that are going to make the big difference, helping turn our communities into environmentally friendly places.  We can talk all we want about the grand picture of “greening” our country; it is not until we take those first tentative steps that anything is going to happen.  People who’s passion is the outdoors often lead this charge as they see the detrimental effects of the pollution we wreak upon our environment first-hand.  The surf industry here in Southern California have been leading this charge with organizations such as the Surfrider Foundation, and now ReSurf.org.

ReSurf.org has developed a system and a plan to gather used and abused surfboards,  ones that would normally be headed to our landfills, pulverizing them, and repurposing the byproducts into other industries.  The website says it best in its overview:

Resurf.org has researched and developed a system to recycle old, broken and discarded surfboards and surfboard manufacturing waste. Resurf.org was organized on a local level, but with a global plan to take the world’s broken surfboards and manufacturing waste and recycle the materials into other practical uses.

The process starts by collecting the broken pieces, pulverizing them, and reducing the material down to dust (imagine a modified wood chipper with a dust catcher!). The dust is then re-introduced into different industries into the manufacturing process as a re-usable resource. Resurf was founded to facilitate each and every surfer globally in reducing his or her personal environmental footprint.