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Through Trek’s\npartnership with NextWave, the company was introduced to Bureo, a group dedicated\nto giving new life to discarded fishing nets. Bureo collects end-of-life\nfishing nets and recycles them into tiny pellets that can be used for\ninjection-molded plastic products like Bat Cage, sunglasses, skateboards, and\nmore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Bat Cage may be a small product, but it’s the little hinge that swings a big door,” said Justin Henkel, Trek’s Director of Product for Saddles and Essentials. “This year alone, it will put 44,000 square feet (3,850 pounds) of discarded fishing nets to good use. That’s making a real difference, and Bat Cage is just the beginning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bontrager’s new recycled\nplastic Bat Cage ($14.99 MSRP) is available immediately on trekbikes.com and\nthrough Trek’s global network of retail partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new\nchapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bat Cage was first\nintroduced in 1997, and it’s one of Bontrager’s longest-running products. It\nhas crossed the finish line of more grand tours, World Cups, and Spring\nClassics than anything else made by the brand. Now, it offers the same simple,\nreliable performance and is made from recycled materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A\nglobal issue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are over 86 million\nmetric tons of plastic in our oceans right now, and more than 8 million metric\ntons are added every year. The net\neffect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fishing nets make up an\nestimated 10% of all plastic in the ocean. What\u2019s even worse is that they are\n4x more harmful to the ocean environment than all other forms of plastic\npollution. From\nnets into nylon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bat Cages are made from\nBureo\u2019s NetPlus nylon pellets. Bureo collects end-of-life fishing nets in Chile\nand recycles them into raw nylon so they can be made into everything from\nsunglasses to skateboards. One\nproduct, big impact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In one year, recycled\nnylon Bat Cages will put good use to approximately 44,000 square feet (3,850\npounds) of discarded fishing nets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More\nways we\u2019re making a difference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trek is a founding member of NextWave, a cross-industry consortium of partner companies\u2014including Dell and General Motors\u2014 that are committed to keeping plastics in our economy and out of our oceans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Trek Bicycles <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trek and Bontrager announced a re-release of its longest-standing unchanged product today. Bat Cage, the injection-molded water bottle cage first introduced in 1997, is now made from discarded and end-of-life fishing nets that would otherwise pollute our oceans. This improvement was made possible through Trek’s partnership with Bureo and membership in NextWave, a cross-industry consortium… Read More »Bontrager Bat Cage – water bottle cage made from recycled fishing nets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[126],"tags":[800],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkbikereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/uca6417a7e2557bd10275111f6b1.previews.dropboxusercontent.com\/p\/thumb\/AAdXrb7OKGGqnKJUQ_JAQjvqq2O4kKlfFPjW3cy7GQuF51J7ClXZj-uqqtT50EDvyPoSnwAihp-qNTqhgBBnTKKSi7otR6CPUEVUG9DJCutJhhfSl5_4MAVPl-hV0aNxaR2jjksnhk1jdZdgnmhXrVVL-KYE73gxM4Lb9eY9gj8ctPneJ3EeMoDesr3ks0sdmeFlJ0YH-_5WGgLZiHjvaZbfD2wP4RxoRPccX1IzpU5BhtL_LvtK8dSiDSK-AyjoR8NBSBm671cTSRLW8ld84GIEunEJH0exqZ4ucb_4cM-lak901AQK1JjxVygRGh1HuIlUVAFdJUVq62clbZzZ9ZQp8wsD-dPrf4KSCWiZF7KMbj0kws_jWU_4Sqp0Av8cSaMGNm8L2ZbxBXHx6e9c9VhcSPj2ZWfEhugYxaim8zBjTcUA0Dm_mMgHTm4cokRS_VU\/p.jpeg?size=800x600&size_mode=3\")
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