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Gear Afterlife
Recycling retired skis and outdoor gear into furniture, tools, and building material.
The Challenge
Hard-to-recycle composite waste: matching a disposal headache to a material opportunity.
The Vision
Ski resorts discard thousands of rental skis that are nearly impossible to recycle because of their complex laminates, which happen to make excellent building material. Gear Afterlife collects retired equipment and remanufactures it into furniture and structural products.
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