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Berkley-based ReStoked system will be incorporated into Rerip later this year

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 28 July, 2010 : - - Solana Beach, California -- As the latest step in an ongoing collaboration, the San Diego-based organization Rerip has teamed with Tobias Schultz, from the Mechanical Engineering department at UC Berkeley, to help expand its surfboard recycling program.  Schultz, known for his "Surfboard Cradle-to-Grave" study, is a graduate student at UC Berkeley.

Last spring, Schultz and Meghan Dambacher from Rerip mentored the ReStoked project, a team of undergraduate engineers at UC Berkley who designed a system to collect old surfboards and re-use them for socially beneficial causes; the Berkley-based ReStoked system will be incorporated into Rerip later this year.

“The next step in improving surfboard recycling is to learn about the beginning and end of a surfboard’s life, from a surfer’s perspective,” says Schultz.  “It has been studied from a technical view, but a not from a human one.  Why do surfers throw surfboards away?  Why do or don’t they buy ‘green’ surfboards?  We’ll use that information to improve surfboard recycling, and the design of ‘green’ surfboards in general.”

Schultz and Rerip have created a survey and need the help of the surfing community. It takes 5 minutes to complete, and the information will be invaluable in the continuing effort to make the “sport of kings” more sustainable. Survey link:

The results of the survey will be made available later this year. More information about the Rerip/UC Berkeley collaboration is available here:

www.rerip.org

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