O’Shea Limestone Neoprene Wetsuit

Price: £99

‘Normal’ neoprene is made from oil. However a neoprene has recently been developed – it is petroleum free and is made from limestone.

As you can imagine limestone has the advantage of being way easier than oil to clean up in the case of a spill. So is it better in the water as well?

It’s way more impermeable than regular neoprene. Limestone neoprene is 98 per cent water impermeable against petroleum-based neoprene which is 65 per cent water impermeable.

The structure of the cells within the material also means that for the same thickness you get a much warmer wetsuit – as well as it being drier, lighter and more flexible!

The improved durability of these wetsuits means they will last longer therefore less of them will end up in landfills and they will have less impact on the environment.

Buy O’Shea 100% limestone neoprene wetsuits here

Smith Snowboarding Goggles

Price: £140

All plastics used to made our essential snowboarding helmets, goggles, boots, back protectors and wrist guards are all made from harmful fossil fuels.

However, Smith now make goggles with 44 percent renewable bio-based plastics, cutting carbon usage down by a massive 40 percent.

The company’s Phenom model is made with recycled, reground urethane from medical waste. They have also started making sunnies made from castor bean oil and recycled fabric helmet liners to boot.

Buy Smith Snowboarding Goggles here

Wave Tribe Eco-Friendly Surf Products

Price: From £2.50 (not for the surfboard though – sorry!)

Wave Tribe was founded in 2007 by surfers who couldn’t find any eco-friendly surf products in shops – so they created a surf company which put ecology and quality first.

Every product is made with care for the planet, using high quality eco materials like hemp, cork, bamboo and recycled plastics – from balsa wood surfboards with eco expoxy to hemp board bags and recycled leashes.

Check out the Wave Tribe products here

Odina Bikinis

Price: £102

The use of recycled PET bottles is quickly becoming a new source for your favourite fabric weave. Lots of surf companies are making clothing from recycled plastic bottles.

Odina are based in the USA and make awesome bikinis from plastic bottles and recycled fishing nets from Italy – as worn by Alison Teal here. They are reversible and have unique designed straps at the back.

Seafoam Surf stock Odina bikinis right here in the UK.

Buy Odina Bikinis here

Water To Go Bottle and LifeStraw

Price: £12.99/£22

Being active outdoors means you need to stay hydrated. This can mean guzzling lots of water from single-use bottles.

Even if you are really good at reusing your own bottles, there’s a good chance that during holidays spent in far flung tropical surf spots and mountain ranges, tap water won’t be viable.

You’ll have to buy water bottles each day, often in areas where recycling is non-existent and bottles are burnt or washed out sea.

Water bottles generally hang around for about 450 years before degrading. Avoid leaving a water bottle legacy by investing in a high-tech filter bottle that you can use with suspect tap water abroad by removing nasties such as bacteria, Protoza, E.Coli and Cholera.

When you buy LifeStraw, you also help to save the planet in a different way. For each LifeStraw purchased, a portion of the funds is used to supply
high-volume LifeStraw Community purifiers to children in developing countries.

The first distribution took place in western Kenya in October 2014 when 1,646 LifeStraw Community purifiers were distributed to 301 schools. Now, more than 157,975 students there have safe drinking water. This coming November, another 2,000 purifiers will bring safe drinking water to an additional 203,000 school aged kids in Kenya.

Buy a Water To Go Filter Bottle or LifeStraw here

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