Luise Grossman of Five Oceans - changing the surf industry one fin at a time
Today's guest is Luise Grossman. She’s a surfer, marketer and the co-founder of a sustainable surf product company called Five Oceans.
In 2013, Luise and her life partner, Felix Wunner decided to start a movement of sorts by trying to make the surf-product industry more sustainable. In fact, she explained to me the contradiction between the mindset of a surfer and the lack of sustainability in most of the products they use for their own sport.
Five Oceans first product was called Ecofin, a surfboard fin made recycled plastic collected in Bali. Specifically, a set of Ecofins is actually made from 100 recycled bottle caps.
In this episode, we’ll talk about how they came up with their idea, how they funded the manufacturing through crowdfunding, and ultimately the impact they have already made and want to make moving forward.
I hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Luise Grossman of Five Oceans.
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Check out the full transcript on Tammy’s blog page.
CREDITS:
Hosted by Tammy Ven Dange
Produced by Jonny Puskas
Theme Music by Joseph McDade
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