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Deep Dive: The Cigarette Surfboard (2024)

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The Cigarette Surfboard
The Cigarette Surfboard focuses on Taylor Lane, a surfer who constructs a surfboard using 10,000 cigarette butts collected from California beaches. This unique surfboard serves as a tool for education and activism, connecting Lane with professional surfers dedicated to ocean conservation. The film presents surfing not just as a sport, but as a means to address larger environmental issues, particularly the impact of plastic waste from Big Tobacco. Through the narrative, the film emphasizes the importance of grassroots efforts in holding corporations accountable for their pollution. The Cigarette Surfboard symbolizes this movement, illustrating how a simple act of collecting waste can lead to broader discussions about environmental responsibility and activism within the surfing community.

Why Watch

  • •Meet Taylor Lane and his unique surfboard project.
  • •Find out how surfing connects to ocean activism.
  • •See the impact of 10,000 cigarette butts on the environment.

Did You Know

•Taylor Lane built a surfboard using 10,000 cigarette butts.
•The film was released in 2024 and has a duration of 93 minutes.
•The surfboard was made from waste collected specifically from California beaches.
•The project aims to hold Big Tobacco accountable for its plastic waste.

Perfect For

Environmental activismSurfing culturePlastic waste awareness