A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Surf Industry’s Environmental Impact Has Produced Data That Neither The Industry Nor Its Advocates Have Fully Processed

Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat

CALIFORNIA — A comprehensive lifecycle assessment of the surf industry’s carbon footprint — including board manufacturing, wetsuit production, leash and accessories manufacturing, travel associated with competitive and recreational surfing, and event production — has produced a total figure that industry analysts describe as larger than most surf industry participants had intuitively estimated. The travel component dominates: competitive surfers flying between WSL events globally, recreational surfers driving to breaks, and the international surf travel industry collectively produce carbon emissions that dwarf the manufacturing component.

What Can Be Done

The manufacturing component — board production, wetsuit materials — is addressable through the sustainable material transitions already underway. The travel component is structurally harder: surfing’s geography requires travel to reach breaks. The surf community’s environmental identity requires engaging with this honestly. The Inertia covers surf sustainability. Bohiney covers the surprising number comedy.

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