About 600 broken bodyboards collected from beaches over the summer are being stacked high to highlight the amount of waste they create.
Primary school-children have covered an area of 2,700 sq ft with the boards at Bude beach in Cornwall.
The polystyrene boards were removed from three beaches in the South West in August by Keep Britain Tidy's BeachCare programme.
University students will use them to create a more eco-friendly design.
Neil Hembrow, BeachCare Officer said: "If we collected these UK wide we would have a huge warehouse full.
"They are manufactured in China, shipped over 5000 miles and surfed for 10 minutes before breaking and going to landfill - it is such an incredible waste".
BeachCare calculates that if 200 boards were discarded on every beach across the South West, that would equate to over 28,000 boards filling up landfill sites.
The organisation is urging people to buy more expensive boards which will last longer.
Shar
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We call them boogie boards here. My last one lasted a decade or so, until my boyz broke it. We all got new boards last summer and they've taken a beating and are still working great. Love playing in the waves!!
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surf broad...
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I was tempted to say it was a business opportunity; repairing and re-selling boards. but when I looked into it they are too cheap for it to be of enough value.
Yet another case of something being too cheap and creating a problem because of it.
Yrs,
Rubato.
Yet another case of something being too cheap and creating a problem because of it.
Yrs,
Rubato.
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Maybe you could smooth off the broken edges and sell them for cushions at the football stadium
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They aren't soft and spongy enough. Once compressed, they stay that way.Burning Petard wrote:Maybe you could smooth off the broken edges and sell them for cushions at the football stadium
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Ideal for Cleveland Browns stadium - team is soft and spongy enough.
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I was thinking of real football, not the game where foot touches ball when you no longer want your team to control the ball.
That compression could be touted as 'memory cushion" that remembers the shape of your buns, an improvement of the usual metal or wooden slabs in the stands.
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That compression could be touted as 'memory cushion" that remembers the shape of your buns, an improvement of the usual metal or wooden slabs in the stands.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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People shouldn't just leave them on the beach where they need to be cleaned up.
That being said, people will not just go and buy more expensive boards. I am willing to bet that many of those boards are from people who are not full time beach goers nor boogey boarders. They are most likely on vacation (aka holiday) for a few days, buy boards for the kids for the time they are there and never use them again.
When we used to go to the outer banks N.C. every two years, we bought a few cheapie boogey boards. If they didn't break, we would leave them at the house we rented for the next people to use. They took up too much room in the trunk (aka boot, or is it bonnet?) that was needed for all the other crap we needed to bring home. I think we did bring a couple home from one of the vacations for use in the pool. Don't remember what happened to them, but I am sure I didn't leave them lieing around on a beach where they needed to be cleaned up.
That being said, people will not just go and buy more expensive boards. I am willing to bet that many of those boards are from people who are not full time beach goers nor boogey boarders. They are most likely on vacation (aka holiday) for a few days, buy boards for the kids for the time they are there and never use them again.
When we used to go to the outer banks N.C. every two years, we bought a few cheapie boogey boards. If they didn't break, we would leave them at the house we rented for the next people to use. They took up too much room in the trunk (aka boot, or is it bonnet?) that was needed for all the other crap we needed to bring home. I think we did bring a couple home from one of the vacations for use in the pool. Don't remember what happened to them, but I am sure I didn't leave them lieing around on a beach where they needed to be cleaned up.