An environmental hazard right under your downward dog: Many yoga mats contain polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which many experts believe is a highly toxic plastic and which has been described as a known carcinogen.
Jasper and Vjera Watts, along with their two young children, are trying to live a plastic-free life. It isn’t easy.brand launched a recycling program on Earth Day 2018. The program has evolved to allow any purchasers of their mat to send back their used mats to be recycled, including non-Manduka mats. The Los Angeles-based Manduka works with the Renewal Workshop, which cleans, sorts, donates, upcycles and recycles the mats.
Yoga companies are also trying to be eco-friendly in ways other than mat materials. JadeYoga mats plants a tree for every mat sold — a number prominently displayed on its website clocks in at more than 1.5 million trees. “I joined our family business already making pads for area rugs made out of natural rubber, so it was a short trip to eco-friendly mats,” president Dean Jerrehian, a former environmental lawyer, wrote in an email.
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