California surfer has created an ingenious board made out of 10,000 cigarette butts to win an upcycling award.
Taylor Lane picked up the discarded butts while assisting a beach cleanup in Santa Cruz, California, to create the board and win the Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest.
“This is the most polluted item picked up on the beach,” creator Taylor Lane told the Orange County Register. “And no one thinks twice that you can do anything with it.”
His filmmaker friend Ben Judkins said the aim of the project was to “promote his vision of a pristine ocean environment”.
“You wouldn’t throw a candy wrapper on the ground, out of a car window, or into the ocean, so why are cigarette butts tossed with such indifference?” he said.
