Today, on Earth Day 2022, Y1 Hockey are thrilled to bring you some really exciting news. As of earlier this week, we are officially Carbon Neutral. Over the past two years we have been making big changes within our business to be as sustainable as possible and to reduce our carbon footprint. About a year ago we started thinking bigger, we wanted to be the world’s first carbon neutral hockey brand. So after many internal meetings, we reached out to Carbon Jacked and asked whether this was possible. After many calls, meetings and countless hours auditing our supply chain we...

In order to become Carbon Neutral we've had to offset our production. Offsetting is a way of paying for others to reduce emissions or absorb CO2 to compensate for your own emissions. For example, by planting trees to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. Some examples of offsetting projects; The classic example that people give when talking about offsetting projects is planting trees. This is because it is easy to understand. Trees take CO2 out of the environment and so by planting more you can take more CO2 out of the environment.  However, there are a lot of offsetting projects that people don't consider. These include, but aren't limited...

At Y1 Hockey we are passionate about not just growing the game, but doing so in a sustainable way. Over the past two years we have been making big changes within our business to be as sustainable as possible and to reduce our carbon footprint.