Late to the comment party, but this is a great article. The hypocrisy in our "green" sport is astounding. I was very pleased when I purchased my pnw grips that they came in all cardboard recyclable packaging. The drink market with plastic bottles is mind boggling. Here in the USA everybody wants to beat the drum of electric cars, but forget about all of the waste that their batteries etc generate. They also ignore things like bottles for drinking. Companies used to use glass, but have all moved to plastic. Real change could occur in our environment if we would focus on single-use plastics instead of other frivolous pseudo environmentalism that solves no real world problem. Sometimes I feel like that we as a society come up with some of these measures to make us feel better about not tackling the problem that would cause us an inconvenience... Getting rid of single-use plastics would help but boy we love our bottled water.
Anyway, that long rant to say this: great article and I wish more companies in the industry would recognize this issue and tackle it head on, if enough companies get on board real change could happen.
May 25, 2021, 4:46 a.m. - Bikeryder85
Late to the comment party, but this is a great article. The hypocrisy in our "green" sport is astounding. I was very pleased when I purchased my pnw grips that they came in all cardboard recyclable packaging. The drink market with plastic bottles is mind boggling. Here in the USA everybody wants to beat the drum of electric cars, but forget about all of the waste that their batteries etc generate. They also ignore things like bottles for drinking. Companies used to use glass, but have all moved to plastic. Real change could occur in our environment if we would focus on single-use plastics instead of other frivolous pseudo environmentalism that solves no real world problem. Sometimes I feel like that we as a society come up with some of these measures to make us feel better about not tackling the problem that would cause us an inconvenience... Getting rid of single-use plastics would help but boy we love our bottled water. Anyway, that long rant to say this: great article and I wish more companies in the industry would recognize this issue and tackle it head on, if enough companies get on board real change could happen.