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As a site concerned with the environment, I’m wondering your position on bicycle helmets. They are made from a type of foam that for years has been considered to be very unfriendly to the environment and it now seems that there are more and more of them. I find it’s arguable that head injuries are a greater problem while riding bikes than while walking so it seems an odd mix. Environmentally friendly bicycling coupled with unfriendly EPS
Thanks for the comment Brad. There are quite a few aspects of “Environmentally friendly bicycling coupled with unfriendly…” ___________ (fill in the blank). Helmets is one I was not quite aware of. I’ll put it on the long list of things to look into. I’m not quite sure about walking vs. riding and the safety of the head. I’ve been in at least two accidents on a bike that have involved a major injury, one being to the head, but I have been in no walking accidents. Also, traveling at 15-20mph and having an impact is quite different from traveling at 3-5mph and having an impact.
Wikipedia is a place to start if you want to look into the bicycle helmet controversy, but simply from an environmental aspect, there is an awful lot of expanded polystyrene in a bicycle helmet and people are buying even more of them than need be based on manufacturers recommendations to replace them more often than they may need to be.
That’s an awful lot of filler in landfills that will not break down