MANERA BAMBOO GRIZZLY PONCHO

This is the perfect accessory to help keeping your warm while changing in and out of your wetsuit.

We chose bamboo fabric for mainly two reasons:

• First, to minimize our impact on earth, as bamboo is an incredible plant:
  • Bamboo farming needs four times less water than cotton
  • Grows without fertilizers and pesticides
  • Absorbs 30% more CO2 than a tree, create 30% more oxygen
  • Prevents deforestation: Can grow 1 meter per day
  • Prevents erosion because of its long roots

• Second because the amazing quality and benefits the bamboo gives to a poncho:
  • Ultra soft feeling
  • Absorbs water three to four times better than a regular cotton
  • Dries twice as fast as other materials
  • Naturally bacteriostatic
  • Naturally hypo-allergenic
  • Material 70% bamboo / 30% cotton

Also, for ethical reasons we decided to avoid cotton as much as we can:

• Cotton farming consumes 25% of all pesticides sold in the world
• 22.000 people die each year because of pesticides used in cotton production
• Cotton irrigation wastes 2/3 of the world drinking water resources
• Fertilizers and pesticides represent 40% of the cotton production cost