There's nothing I can do except move away. Or fight the system." Neoprene – the well-known rubber many wetsuits are made with – was created by a company called Dupont, the original owners of ...

Patagonia stopped using the synthetic, cancer-linked neoprene in its wetsuits in 2014, switching instead to a biorubber produced by Yulex. However, the company uses rubber foam that contains ...

While surfboard and wetsuit manufacturing has traditionally used often toxic and nearly always non-recyclable petrochemical materials, a desire for greener surfing means that nowadays these ...