Green Technology

  

Yakima makes lots of outdoor related items -- mostly various items for carrying bikes, canoes and the like on your car or truck.  So ... it is not surprising that they are very much into the outdoors and the environment ...

" ... dedicated to helping people get into the great outdoors. ... anytime you manufacture something it inevitably has an impact on the environment. ... Our primary objective is reduction. Because let's face it, it’s much easier to clean up after yourself when you’re not messy in the first place. And then what we can't reduce, we off-set. "

" ... partnered with carbonfund.org to calculate the cost of our remaining footprint and then donate however much it takes to offset it. ... It's our little way of helping pave the road to a greener future."

Here are some things Yakima does in manufacturing to reduce their impact ... 

" ... use between 65% - 85% post consumer recycled content and water-based inks in all packaging, Steel and plastic parts on all of our hitch products are 100% recyclable, ... recycle all plastic factory scrap - onsite - resulting in zero downstream waste and 20% recycled content in all plastic part"

 

Via:  Yakima  Link