Every day Americans eat, drink, travel, commute, and use disposable materials such as plastic, glass, and metal that find their way into landfills. Americans generate trash at the astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds per day per person, which translates to 251 million tons per year, of which 55 percent is buried in landfills. The trash production in the United States has almost tripled since 1960. This is almost twice as much trash per person as most other major countries.
In an era of growing awareness to the environment, individuals, businesses, communities and countries are beginning to measure the relative impact of their actions and their contribution to global climate change. Calculating and tracking an individual carbon footprint can be done in one or two ways: using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method (more accurate and specific), or only measuring the immediately attributable emissions from energy use from fossil fuels (more general). The first method takes in account all carbon emissions required to build, use and destroy disposable goods. The second method would only account for the fossil fuels that resulted from building, using and disposing of it.
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Making an impact on the environment doesn’t happen overnight, but turning your carbon footprint as “green” as possible is a change everyone must make. Investing in products that are made to last a lifetime is definitely a step in the “green” direction. Ice chests and coolers are products that are seen far too often in landfills all over the United States. How many coolers have you owned over the years? How long did each one of them last? Broken hinges, latches, and handles, cracked corners and caved-in lids send even the most expensive coolers to their graves every year. Most coolers can’t take the punishment dished out by the average outdoorsman, let alone the pros who need coolers on a daily basis. With so many coolers finding their way to landfills every year, it is disheartening to know that people are still buying ice chests that don’t last.
Ordinary coolers are injection or blow-molded. These processes are relatively inexpensive, high-volume manufacturing methods commonly used for everyday products like soda bottles. YETI Coolers, on the other hand, are one-piece, rotational-molded, and made from the same indestructible material as whitewater kayaks. The result of this manufacturing process is a cooler with uniform wall thickness, thicker and stronger corners, and a dramatic durable advantage. Once you handle a YETI, you’ll notice a huge difference.
YETI Coolers are wildly stronger and last longer than any other ice chests or coolers available on the market. In fact, YETI Tundra meets Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) standards for bear-resistant containers. They have been thoroughly tested in both controlled bear simulations and with wild grizzly bears. With locks in the integrated padlock ports, on two corners of a YETI Tundra cooler, grizzlies get nothing but frustrated.
The last place you will find a YETI Cooler is in a landfill. They are wildly strong and last longer than any ice chest you have ever owned. With the advent of climate change and the efforts by individuals, companies, and communities to try and lower their carbon footprint, investing in a YETI Cooler will not only keep you from buying another cooler ever again, it will help you preserve the environment while you are out enjoying it.
Author Resource:-
Ethan Luke. Cooler - Yeti Coolers are ultra-durable coolers that will last you years.
