Dive summary:

• Over the past four years, SnowSports Industries America’s Snow Sport Recycling Program has recycled more than 350 tons of old and broken skis, snowboards, boots, poles and helmets.
• Washington State University Composite Engineering Department is currently working with SnowSports to manufacture new materials with the recycled compound, current uses are material in construction, landscaping, furniture and fixtures.
• The program is currently only operational in Denver and the Salt Lake City metro but those involved are working to open similar collection and recycling sites throughout Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

From the article:

Washington State University Composite Engineering Department is working to develop products that can be manufactured from the recycled compound. And Leeds School of Business University of Colorado Boulder currently is developing a model for taking the program nationwide.

Grant funds recently were used to purchase additional equipment needed for the six-step process of separating, reducing down and repurposing the collected equipment into a material used in construction, landscaping, furniture and fixtures. ...