In reply to Al Onsight:
> What a load of bloody rubbish!! So it's OK to use oil to generate the power used to manufacture and transport these pads but it's not OK to use Oil as a raw material!? I bet these take more energy to make than conventional pads and they have to ship them from America!!!
Firstly, how do you know that Organic are using oil (let's just say non-renewable shall we?) power to produce the pads? They might be using wind power? It's possible.
Secondly, yes they will need shipping from the States, but that's pretty much it. They don't need shipping from China to the States, and then from the States to the UK.
Finally these pads last longer than any other pad I know of currently on the market. 5 years of hard use by a pro climber and they're still good. My old pads have lasted 3 years of reasonable use before being chucked away. If I get 5 years out of one it's good value for money, plus it's less crap eventually ending up in landfill.
P.S. It's a competition which is free to enter. Why so negative?