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Surfers go green with eco-friendly boards, wetsuits

It’s a sport often described as spiritual, about as close as you can get to being in sync with mother nature. So, it may come as a surprise that the tools of the trade are actually toxic to the environment. Wetsuits and surfboards have been made with harmful petroleum-based products for more than 50 years. Carter Evans reports on how the surfing industry is now taking sustainability for a ride.
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