With more than 20 million skateboarders worldwide and skateboarding's rapidly growing popularity after becoming a new Olympic sport, and with more than 300 000 broken skateboards going daily to landfills, there is an extensive skater-specific pollution problem around the world. Commune DIY (CDIY), a team of skateboarding professionals and enthusiasts, collects old, broken Canadian maple hardwood skateboards that have lost their original purpose and recycle them 100 %.

CDIY upcycles the reclaimed wood into sustainable products and new materials that, for the most part, are sold and find their home in other than skateboarding markets, with a part of the profit going back to support the local and regional skateboarding community. CDIY aims at promoting skateboarding as a sustainable sport with all its individual physical and psychological benefits as well as at making individuals, their communities and the wide public aware of how to solve the sport-specific pollution problems and to inspire other communities to search for solutions and acquire a sense of responsibility.

Skateboarding is known to be the number one cause of deforestation of the Canadian maple. Although there is no way to remake the broken board into a new one to reduce the demand for this wood, there is a way of keeping the broken hardwood away from landfills and recycling it 100 %, thus dealing with pollution from skateboarding. The new products made of it are sustainable, strong and have a new life span which is longer than the one of an average skateboard deck - only about a month before it breaks.