From Plastic Waste To Skateboards | UpcycleThis #Shorts

These brothers-in-law collect plastic waste and turn it into gnarly skateboards.

The Backcountry Swell collects used bottle caps and other plastic waste and turns them into skateboards. Brothers-in-law Mark Mann and Wyatt Remington started the company in 2019 to find a solution to the plastic waste problem.

Each skateboard produced by The Backcountry Swell requires a little over 2 pounds of plastic. That equates to roughly 150 bottle caps, or over 2000 straws per board.

To create these skateboards, bottle caps are collected, cleaned, and run through a small shredder that turns these caps into plastic chips. The small chips are then melted and run by a heating element, through an extrusion machine, and into a mold. The mold is removed, excess plastic is cut off, and then trucks and wheels are added on. Remington told NowThis that the whole process only takes about 45 minutes.

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[Kremsi]

to be honest, it's just marketing to sell a product, this doesn't help the environment, the fishing industry dumps 8 milions tons of plastic waste a year in the ocean