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Body Glove ECO - Environmentally Friendly Wetsuits

Following in Patagonia’s treehugging footsteps, Body Glove is releasing their ECO wetsuit, made from snappily named eco-flex and bio-stretch. The Eco-flex exterior is “the purest form of non toxic stretch material on the planet.” I’m not sure what that means, but it is supposedly non-petroleum based and “100% environmentally friendly.” The mid later, Bio-stretch, is made from natural rubber, and the “interior of the ECO is 100% non-petroleum calcium carbonate closed cell foam rubber. Sounds promising, we surfers have another choice in environmentally friendly wetsuits, plenty of catchy marketing words, an odd photo shoot with a surfer in a jungle, and a maybe touch of greenwashing as well.

via Stefan Teitge

This entry was posted on August 16, 2007 at 9:59 am and is filed under ethical consumerism, sustainability . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Body Glove ECO - Environmentally Friendly Wetsuits”

  1. g.e. campbell Says:
    November 29, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Great with Patigonia and Body Glove both taking the lead to make eco-friendly wetsuits the rest should follow suit and do the same and quit the addiction to carbon based products.
    I Have been making eco-friendly surfboards for over 20 years an people are just catching on now time for getting off the toxic crap and on to the next step into the future of a carbonless surf industry.

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