Over 2 million skateboards are thrown away each year
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Due to the popularity of skateboarding, the skateboard has replaced furniture manufacturing as the leading contributor to maple deforestation. Case in point: over 100,000 decks are produced per month in the United States alone. This is especially detrimental to forest ecosystems since it takes 40 to 60 years for the Canadian maple tree to mature before it can be cut down and made into skate decks. Over 1 million skateboard decks are thrown away each year.

 

Jeff Gray has been skateboarding and making things since the eighties. It wasn't until 2010 that he began creating objects out of broken skateboards. Skateboard decks are constructed using multiple colored layers of maple.  Over One millions skateboards are thrown away each year. All the items are hand-made from broken skateboards or other salvaged material in his small shop located in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

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