What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?

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An estimated 8,380 tons of old wetsuits lie unused and annually end up in a landfill because of the lack of scalable, sustainable recycling systems for neoprene.

The British diving magazine Scuba Diver reports that PADI, in partnership with Circular Flow (a new British company), hopes to offer the dive industry an effective means to recycle wetsuits and other non-biodegradable neoprene products such as mask straps and changing mats. To ensure feasibility and determine global scalability, the initiative began with an August test run in the UK....

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