Qualified Materials
The ECOBOARD Project Verifies the use of Qualified Materials in boards against a set of qualifying sustainability criteria. This is the most practical and effective method to ensure that any board bearing the ECOBOARD Gold Label or Level One label: has a measurably reduced carbon footprint, uses renewable, recycled and/or up-cycled material inputs, and uses materials and processes that reduce toxicity during manufacturing.
Sustainable Surf will conduct random sampling of qualified materials. This will likely involve, cured resin/foam samples being requested from surfboard builders, comparative analysis of recycled materials, and requests for supply chain information. Sustainable Surf will discuss costs to cover this sampling process with each brand. These costs will ultimately vary dependent on the material in questions and the number of random audits undertaken.
Sustainable Surf currently qualifies board building materials from the following companies:
Qualified Resins
| Company | Product | Bio-Carbon Content in the fully cured resin* | Level One Qualifying | Gold Level Qualifying |
| Fairpoxy | Fairpoxy Laminating Resin | 27% |
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| Entropy Resins | Super Sap ONE | 30% |
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| Entropy Resins | Super Sap CLR | 29% |
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| Entropy Resins | Super Sap BRT | 30% |
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| Sicomin | Greenpoxy33 + SD 4999 Hardener |
26% |
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| Sicomin | Surf Clear EVO + SD EVO Medium | 29% |
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| Sicomin | SR GreenPoxy56 + SD Surf Clear | 35% |
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| Sicomin | SR GreenPoxy56 + SD GP 505V2 | 52% |
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| Sicomin | GreenPoxy Foaming Resin | 37% |
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| Green Room Resin | BCE Resin + any standard Green Room hardener | 19% |
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| ATL Composites | KINETIX® Eco-X R135 | 26% |
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| ATL Composites | KINETIX® Eco-X R130 | 20% |
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| Pro Link Materials | Bio-Link | 20% |
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| Advanced Resin Systems | Ghost Epoxy |
27% |
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| Resoltech | 1070 ECO |
31% |
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| Resin Research | Bio Science 21 |
21% |
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| QR Polymers | BLUE FIN 20 |
23% |
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| QR Polymers | BLUE FIN A25 |
29% |
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| Nanopoxy | N12 Resin + N085 Hardener, Biobased |
54% |
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| Company | Product | Bio-Carbon / Recycled / Wood Content | Level One Qualifying | Gold Level Qualifying |
| Polyola | PU EcoBlank | 100% recyclable polyurethane core made from recycled post-industrial polyol + MDI based isocyanate | |
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| Govan Projects | PU Bioblank | 48% bio-carbon content 100% biodegradable polyurethane type core with up to 70% of components derived from plants. |
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| BioBrand Foam | PU Bioblank | 48% bio-carbon content 100% biodegradable polyurethane type core with up to 70% of components derived from plants. |
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| Grow Blanks | Sisal Agave Blank | 100% organic and biodegradable alternative to traditional surfboard foam. | |
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| Marko Foam | Enviro-Foam | 100% recyclable, tight bead fusion, high performance expanded polystyrene core with 25% recycled content | |
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| ECORE | e.CORE 25R | 100% recyclable, high performance expanded polystyrene core with 25% recycled content | |
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| Approved ECOBOARD builders | Sustainably grown, reclaimed and/or recycled wood (timber)* | Constituting min 50% of finished core by weight* | |
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| Approved ECOBOARD builders | Sustainably grown, reclaimed and/or recycled wood (timber) as the entire/complete structure of a board, requiring little to no resin and/or fibreglass in its manufacture (Such as a traditional alaia made from FSC Certified paulownia)* | Constituting approx. 100% of finished board by weight* | |
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