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The Re-Use Atlas
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The Re-Use Atlas

by Duncan Baker-Brown
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
RIBA Publishing
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STEP 1 CASE STUDY No.4

Bureo Skateboards

environmental | social activists | inclusive entrepreneurs

[The Story]

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. During his time as an environmental consultant in Chile, Kneppers noticed the huge amount of plastic that was having a detrimental effect on the coastline and ecosystems. 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 ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781000701401