Highlighting Huggers - Cruz Foam
Channel: Cruz Foam
Date: 25/10/2023

Next in the Highlighting Huggers series is @cruzfoam!

Founded in 2016 by John Felts + Marco Rolandi, Cruz Foam is an exciting and transformative solution to shipping waste, Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam in particular. The company, who started out looking for a way to make sustainable surfboards, has developed an alternative to EPS. Their fully biodegradable, "earth digestible" foam promotes the growth of plants and other vegetation when dissolved in water 🤯

This is monumental for multiple reasons:
📦 ~2 million tons of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam is produced annually
🐡 EPS foam easily turns into microplastics, which make their way into the bellies of our marine buddies (and up the food chain)
🗑️ ~30% of all landfill space by volume is taken up by EPS

We define a Sea Hugger as a lover and defender of our oceans and all its inhabitants. Sounds like @cruzfoam is doing just that, and then some. Yay for finding epic alternatives! 🌊

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