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WAVE TRIBE [04.06.2009] Category: Surf travel gear
WAVE TRIBE "A hemping hand"

Hemp seemed like a wonderful alternative to plastic, it grows naturally without pesticides, is mold resistant, strong and durable, and most importantly biodegradable — at the end of its lifecycle it would go back into the earth and decompose, it wouldn’t rot in some landfill for the next thousand years. When I returned from my trip I started to do more research and found recycled and biodegradable padding.

I am currently working with a company on a vegetable based PE which would green the product even more. Next I found a company that would help me produce surfboard leashes out of recycled plastic, product number two was born and I could feel those Wave Tribe footprints getting lighter and lighter with each step.

Wave Tribe is learning as we go, we are a stoked company of surf crazed human being looking to do the right thing in a market place driven by big brands, corporate companies, and small margins. Like everyone else we are making our product overseas, but we are doing it differently.

Wave Tribe is committed to using sustainable materials and partners with companies that maintain an ethical work environment—‘we’ as consumers have forced companies to deliver lower and lower priced products. The reality is how a purchase impacts ones wallet is more decisive than how the product influences the environment. We need to change how we think, how we look and how we buy.

It’s up to all of us to join this tribal movement and to recognize the importance of walking differently. Our oceans and planet deserve and demand an immediate action, our lives are intimately connected to the health of our planet and if we don’t act now we’ll all be surfing in wave pools filled with bogie borders and chlorinated water.

DEREK (Founder)




mesurfs thoughts
Haven't used the gear, but I've seen one of the board bags in the flesh and have to say they look pretty sweet. We'll try get some gear in for a review and see how they go. Derek?



BRAND: WAVE TRIBE
STYLE: Board bags and leashes
CATEGORY: TRAVEL GEAR
WEB: www.wavetribe.com
RRP: Check the site