Millet’s Recycle and Save - Climbing Ropes, that is.
by Warren McLaren, Sydney on 07.28.06
Sorry for the late notice to all the treehugging climbers who live in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland. We only just discovered this today. But if you take your old climbing rope, before the end of July 2006, to one of 120 participating stores, in those countries, French mountaineering company, Millet, will discount € 0,35 per meter towards the purchase of a Millet rope. That's about $22 USD from an average 50m line. You can trade in any brand of nylon climbing rope. Last year Millet recovered over 55,000m of used ropes for recycling. They reprocess the perlon in the ropes, melt it down, and reform it into hangers for their other product lines. The strength and fall arresting ability of nylon ropes diminishes over time, and hanging on to old ropes can be a safety issue in the event of severe fall. This recycling effort is part of Millet’s Mountain Environmental Contribution, which includes clean ups of the mountaineering base camps for the Himalayan mountains of Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and Everest. ::Millet Recycle and Save.
I've got to ask - why the needless conversion to USD? The people who will be benefiting most from this post will either be using the euro as their currency, or have a good idea how the euro relates to their own currency(which isn't the dollar). I know I'm being a bit nit-picky, but it just struck me as a really odd thing to do.
Hi Scot, although we like to tell green stories from across the planet, currently the majority of our readers are American. Adding the euro conversion simply gives the bulk of our readers a quick take on how much discount is being offered.
Conversely most of my US centric posts will have metric conversions for the likes of miles and gallons. For the rest of us, who no longer remember what an inch or quart is. Just trying to be a bit egalitarian.