{"id":7460,"date":"2024-11-29T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/can-surfing-ever-become-sustainable-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:28:50","slug":"can-surfing-ever-become-sustainable-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/can-surfing-ever-become-sustainable-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Can surfing ever become sustainable? &#8211;  BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0YBhoFU3vg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Historically, surfing has had an image of a sport and lifestyle that is in tune with, and protects, oceans and the environment. But some surfers say the sport relies on boards and wetsuits mass-produced from petrochemicals that create tonnes of waste every year.<\/p>\n<p>If you add in the international travel needed to enjoy the best waves, the average surfer&#8217;s carbon footprint is said to be 50% greater than the average person&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been estimated that more than 8,000 tonnes of neoprene wetsuits end up in landfill every year<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>#Surfing #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D0YBhoFU3vg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, surfing has had an image of a sport and lifestyle that is in tune with, and protects, oceans and the environment. But some surfers say the sport relies on boards and wetsuits mass-produced from petrochemicals that create tonnes of waste every year. If you add in the international travel needed to enjoy the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}