I think we need to hold our horses here. 1) Patagucci wetsuits svck. These will likely be no different, but let's find out. 2) Let's wait and see how much of this type of latex can be produced before we say it meets demand, to wit,Yep. It's in the video I posted- Patagonia will share the recipe. Hopefully other brands will follow suit and the "market" will drive down the prices.
Does Patagucci still guarantee their suits? Free seam repair?
I don't know what planet these guys are from, but the rainforests are all new growth from the collapse of the Meso and South American civilizations wiped-out by European diseases starting in 1492. It sounds like misanthropic Western corporations have figured out some way of imposing their economic imperialism on people who are already poor. I'm sticking with Yamamoto. The rest can commit harakiri.But natural rubber can have nasty environmental consequences, too—hevea is a cash crop in many tropical countries, and to plant more of it, rainforests have been slashed and burned, waterways drained and diverted, and toxic defoliants used to remove native ground cover. In Southeast Asia, farmers have cleared an area of native forest about the size of Massachusetts and Vermont combined to cultivate hevea.
When we decided to switch to natural rubber, we wanted to make sure we weren’t contributing to deforestation, so we partnered with the Forest Stewardship Council® to ensure that our hevea rubber was sourced only from plantations that preserve biodiversity and ecological integrity. All of our Yulex natural rubber is FSC® certified, ensuring that it doesn’t come from newly clear-cut rainforest, like some of the world’s supply.
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