Unemployed Portuguese creates bodyboard with Cork

Dodo Cork Boards is the name of a new Portuguese project which combines originality environmental sustainability â€" this time with boards of Bodyboarding. The booster is Fernando Simões, of 34 years, residing in Figueira da Foz.

The idea of creating boards from Cork emerged five years ago, "as a joke", according to his own. What started as a hobby has become a full-time occupation that he lost his job. Fernando, fiscal technician of public works, is currently unemployed and attends a degree in mechanical engineering.

Dedicated now to this project, its main objective is to promote reduction in the use of plastics in this kind of sports equipment, "through the incorporation of organic raw materials, recyclable and sustainable," explains Green Savers.

The project works in partnership with Granorte, company that provides support in the supply of Cork used in surfboard bodyboard and that allowed Fernando do the first experiments with the material.

All boards are produced manually by Fernando. Consist of Cork, polystyrene and fibreglass network and are glued together with resin-that is, at the end of its life cycle can be fully recycled. All raw materials are produced in Portugal, with the exception of the resin.

"The choice of materials was based on their subsequent recycling," says Fernando. And added: "I'm working on other articles that can be based on the recycled materials the planks and remains associated with its production."

The bodyboard â€" who has recently received the provisional patent of utility model â€" is just the first of many. You can see it on the page Dodo Cork Boards on Facebook and order it via email of the project. Prices vary between € 150 and € 300, depending on the sizes and characteristics.

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