Why do we actually need a recycled yoga mat?
Since the evolution of the material plastic, our society has produced 8,3 million tons of this material. ost of it can be found today as waste in our nature. Various ecosystems, animals, and our human health are suffering. All of us individual people are producing waste and contribute to the rising amount of plastic waste.
These offcuts are called pre-consumer waste
That means that individual people have not used this material so far and the quality is still premium. You are probably wondering what normally happens with all of these offcuts? Fortunately, most of the material gets recycled or rather downcycled. Offcuts occurring for example in the production of mattresses, get recycled in a product with less quality such as insulating material. This type of recycling is called downcycling. We wanted to find a high-quality solution and treat the offcuts as valuable resources:
hejhej-mats upcycles foam offcuts into a high-quality and recycled yoga mat
By recycling the offcuts and by producing our recycled yoga mats we can make sure that the material will get a second life. For us, it’s not only a second life but all our recycled yoga mats are designed in line with the circular economy and will get even a third, fourth, fifth … life. That means that we can even recycle our yoga mats once they reach the end of their lifespan and can produce again new recycled yoga mats. In this way, hejhej-mats are closed-loop, sustainable and recycled yoga mats. This sounds fancy, right?
But what about hygienic and health-related aspects?
While doing yoga, you have direct skin contact with the surface of your mat. People’s health is part of sustainability and extremely important for us. This is why we wanted to achieve a recycled yoga mat that exclusively benefits your health in every way. The offcuts are pre-consumer and qualitatively valuable but still, they get cleaned before processing them into our recycled yoga mats. Additionally, our goal was to achieve a medical conform top layer for our hejhej-mats, unfortunately, we could not reach this with our recycled material. This is why we decided to use minimal virgin materials for the paper-thin top of our otherwise recycled yoga mats. In this way, we can guarantee you that your hejhej-mat solely benefits your health.
The hejhej-blocks are also made from the same foam offcuts as the hejhej-mats. These sustainable yoga blocks are also closed-loop, so we can recycle them together with the hejhej-mats to create new hejhej products.
Return system
Once your hejhej product has reached the end of its life cycle, you can simply return it to us free of charge. Get 15% off your next purchase in the hejhej online shop. Simply send us an email at return@hejhej-mats.com!
