If you’re like me, you’ve got a bin in your garage or basement with old seat packs, hydration bags, and day packs, that are sometime past their useful life. Cordura, Gortex, Hypalon, and other wonder fabrics complete their make up. Now that they’re worn out, what do we do with them?  

They don’t recycle, they can’t biodegrade. Bury them? Burn them? Collect them I suppose.

This dilemma was the impetus for Ethik: to build a solid, functional seat bag with sustainability built in.

Pedro’s Ethik bags address the three keys of sustainability:

Ethik Sustainability

Environmental:

• A thorough Life Cycle Analysis is the basis for the materials and construction used in the Ethik design. HDPE is wonderfully durable, in addition to being a useful industrial nutrient.

• It is recyclable, returning to life time and again at the same material value.
• It is printed with water-based ink.

Social:

• Ethik is sewn in co-op shops throughout Quebec province, Canada, reinstating jobs in communities previously devastated by the textile industry’s collapse as jobs marched off to cheaper, unregulated markets.
• The choice of the workshops to manufacture the Ethik bags is not done simply according to price but other criteria such as distance from the warehouse (greenhouse gases), quality, operation performance, design abilities, equipment to be used, etc…

Economic:

• Production of Ethik bags fosters growth in a region with a weakened economy. Every job preserved or created has a far reaching impact.

Pedro’s it is truly exciting to offer a new accessories designed for sustainability. When you look at the wall of seat bags in the store, it is the only one with a cradle to cradle approach. A never ending life.  Truly the only one to buy if you care about the planet. To learn more, visit us on the web and follow some of our recommended links regarding sustainability.

Yours in Cycling,

Chris

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