Burton Snowboards’ Post

Step one of many. We spark change by thinking differently. By thinking sideways. Microplastics are being found in our water, blood, placentas, testicles, breast milk, and babies. Researchers seem to be finding new hormone, DNA, and gene alterations daily caused by it. This is a devastating trade off for supply chain efficiency, packaging performance, lower costs, and better CO2 stats in our LCA scores. Do you agree that we must to do something to turn off the plastic tap, even if it isn't the perfect solution? This project has taken 5+ years to get to market. There are so many ripples that occur from a small deviation from the norm. If there was a clear and simple solution, everyone would be doing it. This is our first of many moves to be better, do better, and do it in partnership with the supply chain, the industry, our collective households, and our shared playground. We have stronger abilities to monitor and manage responsible paper sourcing today than we ever have, material innovators creating new technologies and novel materials, brands and industries giving a damn and rethinking what it means to do business, a growing demand for increased material recovery infrastructure, and we have the most informed and connected end users. We're swapping LDPE plastic bags for sustainably sourced paper bags. Paper is the highest globally recycled material, and is not a contributor to microplastic pollution. While we continue to help develop new materials, new technologies, and less impactful ways to get the tools that help people experience the beauty and connect to the soul of nature into the hands of all who wish the experience that, we will focus on playing within the infrastructure we have in new creative ways. Sure, we'd love a wide open pow field as a blank canvas. But, sometimes you need to get creative with the side hits you can find when the conditions are less than ideal. Inspired, challenged, supported, and cheered for by the amazing humans and hearts behind prAna A New Earth Project Atlantic Packaging Seaman Paper Burton Snowboards Landsberg Orora Collaborators: Maricar Fulgado, Adrian Josef Margelist, Evan Litsios, Emily Foster, Cal Kennedy, Paris Mendes, + many more

When I give talks about resource extraction or the promise of transitioning to a circular economy, I'm always speaking to individual humans. That's complicated, because taking actions as an individual--recycling, riding our bikes, buying used clothing--is not necessarily enough to change the pervasive systems in which we find ourselves. It's our systems that create juggernaut environmental impacts that can feel hard to slow, and it takes a lot of individual shifts to start undermining those systems. Yet what I keep reminding myself is that some audience members occupy important roles INSIDE our systems. In fact, I believe that almost anyone who passes through one of my talks has some sphere of systemic influence where they can start to place pressure or brainstorm change. The post below from Burton Snowboards is a great example of this. Someone in that company required an environmental impact assessment to be done. And although a snowboard--and its attendant gear--has much more complex impacts than just its packaging, a shift in packaging is low-hanging fruit. Someone in the organization advocated for this; someone followed through. I hope those other more complex material impacts are next. It starts with an idea: every object we touch is made of earth. Every object we hold came from somewhere (usually a lot of somewheres). Every object we touch has some kind of next life. Is that next life sitting in a landfill, unusable, for some kind of eternity, perhaps leaching chemicals as it breaks down? Or is it being pulped into the paper flow, turned back into printer stock? Is it something I can gently set upon the fire, watching it curl into nothingness, without polluting the air? Can I bury the ashes beneath a tree and have the tree receive it as gift?

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