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Chris Hines Eco Board
<b>Chris Hines</b><br> Chris Hines is sustainability director of the Eden Project, a committed surfer and a green campaigner. With Surfers Against Sewage he stopped 400 million gallons of waste going into Britain's seas each day, and now he's solving surfing's dirty secret. The 750,000 non-degradable boards sold each year mean the sport isn't as squeaky clean as its eco-friendly image might suggest, and pro surfers can run through a board a fortnight. So Hines developed the Eco Board, a compostable alternative.
Skewed View: Chris, tell us why you're developing an eco-friendly surfboard.

Chris Hines: "Surfing has this wonderful green imagery but the reality is that the surfboard is a lump of horrible petrochemical plastic and will sit in landfill sites and have a negative environmental footprint. As surfers, we wanted to change that."
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