ABSTRACT
Bureo designs and manufactures skateboards using discarded fishing nets, which is good news for shorelines and oceans. The founders, mechanical engineers and keen surfers and skaters Ben Kneppers, Dave Stover and Kevin Ahearn, met in 2011 in Sydney. He also realised that, as with many coastlines that surfers inhabit, there was limited or no waste management provision; pollution just built up. The trio quickly realised that they could marry their passion for surfing and skating with their concern for the environment. In 2014 Bureo produced its first commercially available boards for retail. The founders of Bureo plan to hand over many of the responsibilities for collecting and supplying material to new start-up community-based companies. These are all good measures that will hopefully begin to change destructive linear processes, such as the fishing industry, into something a bit more like a closed-loop system.
