INFO: ENVIRONMENT!!!

The preservation of our environment is a priority. Surfers, we are nature lovers first and foremost.

Nevertheless, it is obvious that our activities are contributing to the destruction of the planet. In spite of this we are doing all that is possible for us to reduce this imprint.

We integrate the environmental impact into our management with our process of product fabrication. Integrated into the R&D system, our Staff is on a mission to reduce this impact by utilizing available solutions and also by inventing new ones:

• Packaging: 100% recyclable and without plastic on our major products.
• A separation system for all our waste.
• Durable Board production with the strongest shock-resistant technology for their use.
• Dust and scrap reduction for the factory.
• Subcontracting only to ‘clean’ factories controlled by authorities.

But we must not be naïve on this subject, by believing that producing in France is more ecological. Globally it is the same, because most components are fabricated in Asia.

We believe that the price has a major impact on the planet. Above all, if you pay your gear 2,5 times more expensive, you will have to live and work 2,5 times harder to buy it, which in turn leads you to pollute 2,5 times more. And this is something we refuse.

But we also refuse to do ‘low-cost’ and to follow every new trend because this type of consumption destroys the planet for nothing. Making Boards knowing that they are only going to last a summer? Never at GONG. This is surfing trash.

Ecology is a very concerning subject of the highest level. There is no perfect answer to this, just the will to be better every day.

Shaper and owner : Patrice Guénolé and GONG-GALAXY.