In Maui, architects are turning surfboard waste into new housing

Get the Full StoryHawaii Off Grid is using foam scraps to make insulated blocks for housing a solution that s actually stronger and more energy efficient than the original.

On Maui s North Shore, inside an industrial building that was once a pineapple cannery, an architecture office sits across the hall from a surfboard manufacturer. When the architects first moved in, they noticed something: Every few days, the dumpsters in the back would fill up with scraps of foam from making the boards.

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