Recycle your old wetsuit with Rip Curl Newquay and get free flip flops in exchange! (Also up for grabs: the chance to win a trip to Tahiti!)
Image by Micky Smith
It’s all go down at Rip Curl Europe’s flagship store on Saturday 2 May 2009. Not only is it launch of their national wetsuit amnesty (and the chance to get free Project Resurrection flip flops in exchange for your old wetsuit), but there will also be a film screening of Relentless Revolution: Powers of Three which features Rip Curl surfer and Eco Ambassador, Tom Lowe. With a live band performing in store, Rip Curl Planet Pack giveaways with every purchase, a chance to meet the pro Rip Curl team and a very special Rip Curl Search WCT event announcement direct from Rip Curl headquarters in Australia during the course of the day, this is a jam packed event that you wont want to miss – and there’s also the chance to win a trip to Tahiti, where Rip Curl recently ran the acclaimed environmentally focused project, Coral Guard as part of Rip Curl’s ongoing Planet Foundation, which runs environmental projects across the world.
Rip Curl Europe’s flagship store in Newquay’s launch of the national ‘Wetsuit Amnesty’ demonstrates the brand’s continued global commitment to protecting the environment. Renowned for developing and producing the worlds leading wetsuits, Rip Curl are now pioneering wetsuit recycling through Project Resurrection, giving your old unused wetsuits a new lease of life. The Newquay store is calling on all surfers and wetsuit owners to search their garages and basements for their old neoprene and bring them into the store to be crushed into Resurrection Rubber and reused in manufacturing new products, helping to cut down on the waste going into landfill sites and the materials produced to create new products.
Rip Curl will be offering pairs of Project Resurrection sandals in return for all wetsuits brought into the Newquay store between 10am to 6pm on Saturday 2 May 2009. Rip Curl’s Marketing Manager James Hendy said, “Our Newquay store is a great launch pad for the wetsuit amnesty, people can bring in their old suits on the day and walk out with the finished result on their feet, experiencing first hand the benefits of recycling their waste and investing in recycled products for the future. Rip Curl are extremely proud to have the largest range of ecological products available in the surf sports industry.
“It’s going to be a really exciting day”, said Hendy, “especially with the variety of old suits we’re expecting to receive, but the SOMEWHERE event location announcement will be the icing on the cake, it’s a real privilege to have Newquay shouting the SEARCH WCT event location to the rest of the world”. Speculation has been rising to the whereabouts of the next Rip Curl WCT Search event, but following world-class events held in Mexico, Indonesia and Reunion Island in previous years The Search event in 2009 is sure to be at a dream destination.
Come along to the store on Saturday May 2nd from 6pm to be a part of Rip Curl’s leading initiatives to protect the environment, and bring your old wetsuits with you!
For more information on Project Resurrection, Rip Curl Planet Foundation, and SOMEWHERE visit ripcurl.com
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