July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
Bureo Skateboards
environmental | social activists | inclusive entrepreneurs
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 ...