This morning the yoga group that use our Meeting House six mornings a week left a decaying, plastic yoga mat for me to dispose of in my domestic bin. This followed a complaint from the toddler group that uses the room after them as their little people were picking up the plastic grains and putting them in their mouths.

I realised there must be so many plastic mats being laid on the floors of meeting houses weekly throughout the UK and wonder how many football pitches they would cover every week?

I have suggested to my yoga group it would be really good if they began to actively promote the use of sustainable mats to their students in future to reflect their Quaker hosts' view. 

I checked out Ethical Consumer to see what they recommend but could only find reference to yoga clothing so I have contacted them to ask if they could conduct a survey on ethical yoga mats. However I did find this on t’interweb https://www.goingzerowaste.com/blog/non-toxic-sustainable-yoga-mats/

I would be very interested to hear from any Meeting House that already has a policy on the type of yoga mats that can be used on their premises.

In friendship

Judi