How many hockey sticks are made and thrown away each year?
How many hockey sticks are made each year?
How many sticks break and are thrown in the trash?
What happens to a broken stick when it is thrown away?
What can be done to reduce composite waste and instead try to help the environment?
How many hockey sticks are made each year?
Over 3 million composite sticks are manufactured each year and over 2 million of these sticks are sold each year in North America alone.
It is quite difficult to grasp how many sticks it is, but at the same time it is not so strange that so many sticks break when each player in the Swedish SHL goes through about 40-50 sticks per season.
Each player in the Swedish Allsvenskan go through about 20-25 sticks per season.
Then there are an incredible number of other leagues and teams, both in Sweden, the rest of Europe and even the world.
How many sticks break and are thrown in the trash?
Since more than 3.2 million sticks are manufactured every year, almost as many are thrown away. In North America, it has been reported that over 70% of all sticks that break are thrown away.
Then you can only guess that it is about the same numbers for the rest of the world as well. These are pretty big numbers we are talking about.
What happens to a broken hockey stick when thrown away?
A hockey stick is made of composite material. Composite materials usually consist of carbon fiber, fiberglass and aramid. The hockey stick mostly consists of carbon fiber.
Not all composite materials can be degraded, but they can be reused.
When a broken hockey stick is thrown in the trash, it goes to the landfill and is only piled up as it cannot be broken down. Yet anyway...
Hopefully in the future we will be able to break down composite materials. But until then, it is up to us to help the environment.
What can you do about it yourself? Well, one thing you can do is to repair and reuse your broken stick so that it lasts a long time.
What can be done to reduce composite waste and instead try to help the environment?
As we mentioned earlier, you can fix your broken stick or reuse it yourself for something else. There are a lot of things you can do with a broken hockey stick! You can also buy used sticks to support the environment movement.
If you are skeptical that a refurbished stick will last, you can at least use it as a practice stick and use your other "real" sticks for games. Our sticks will last tho, don't worry!
You who have tested our refurbished sticks know that they can be used just as well for practices as for games.
Think one step further. Think about the environment.