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  • When a bag is made from a billboard, it has a story.

  • It's creative, it's bold.

  • Every bag is giving back and it's being eco-friendly.

  • I was working in advertising and I saw that

  • all the billboards that were going up in essence were going to the landfill.

  • Most people don't know that billboards are made of vinyl

  • and it can be turned into something else.

  • And so, I thought, “Let's create a business that's solely based on billboards.”

  • On any given month, we get close to around 10,000 pounds of billboards that we turn into product.

  • Once that billboard goes up, it's usually up for a period of about four weeks.

  • This is what a typical campaign is on the street for.

  • It's then shipped to our facility here.

  • We sort it, we cut it, and send it to the manufacturer

  • where they do the final sewing and cleaning of the product.

  • We're able to take a billboard that had one purpose

  • and then reuse it to make something else.

  • My brother and myself are both huge surfers.

  • And we kind of felt like the surfing community loves bright colors.

  • And billboard vinyl is actually very durable.

  • It's a thick material.

  • It's waterproof, it's mildew proof.

  • So, it's actually the perfect material for a surfboard bag.

  • After that, we expanded into backpacks, duffle bags, wallets.

  • Fanny packs, hip packs, snowboard bags.

  • Every product's different. Every product's one of a kind.

  • Each piece that we make is unlike anything before it.

  • Our playground for all of this is based in the environment.

  • Whether it's the mountains, the rivers, the ocean,

  • it's something that we, in essence, have a responsibility to maintain and sustain.

When a bag is made from a billboard, it has a story.

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