Why recycle skateboards?

I skate, and I'm an artist. Skateboard jewelry and accessories seemed like a good move on my part. I had no idea how many decks get thrown away. One skatepark, is saving an average of 10 decks per week for us. That's just one week, one park! Imagine how many decks worldwide are going into landfills. Granted, we would never be able to make that much jewelry. But we feel we are certainly doing a small part to help keep some of these decks from a undignified ending, and turning them into cool works of art.  This pic represents one week worth of collected decks, Stay tuned for the jewelry we will make from them...