We are seeing an increase in production of environmentally friendly wax.  Eco Lounge is now working with a company out of Colorado committed to producing enviro-friendly products, Purl Wax.

The folks at Purl Wax report, "In the face of the big environmental issues nowadays ski and snowboard wax might not seem to play such an important role, but a traditional stick of wax bears a lot more toxic potential than generally known. The large majority of ski and snowboard waxes are fluorinated waxes that consist of perflourocarbons or PFC. There are two major problems with the use of PFC. First of all, the production of PFC requires a highly toxic and nearly indestructible chemical called PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid. Once PFCs start degrading they break back down to PFOAs and are eventually shed into our water streams."    Check out their site at: www.purlwax.com/

M. Teschner