Mar 13, 2009 1:04 pm US/Eastern
Green Scene: Skateboards Become Deck Stools
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
A pair of Pennsylvania
brothers has found a way to give skateboards a second life as furniture. Now
they hope to start a recycling program to keep a common piece of trash out of
the waste stream.
A skateboard goes through a lot! Eventually, the wood will
break.
Just ask the guys at Nocturnal
Skate Shop in Center
City.
Darien Schell, a Nocturnal manager, told us, "We
usually end up with a whole bunch of broken boards, and we just take 'em and
toss 'em right down the steps."
Broken boards gave Adam Podlaski and his brother Jason an
idea.
Adam said, "I approached Jay, and I was like, can you
make me some furniture out of these things?"
So Jason created the Deck Stool.
"The design was really based on the way skateboards
break," said Jason.
"A large
percentage breaks at the truck, because they're weakened by the holes that are
drilled there for the truck.
And then
the rest break in the center.
As you
can see by the design, the longer ones become the legs, and the shorter pieces
become the seats."
Now Jason and Adam sell Deck Stools as colorful, recycled
furniture -- furniture that doesn't require cutting down a tree.
Schell approves.
"We've got a big stack of broken boards.
What better place for them to go than to
somebody who's doing something good for 'em?" said Schell.
"What I'm interested in doing is starting a recycling
program with as many local shops in the area as I can," said Jason.
The Podlaskis will even make a custom deck stool from your
own skateboards.
The stools aren't cheap.
They start around $250.
But the
Podlaskis say, they hope the design and the spirit of reuse will catch on.
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