In celebration of Earth Day (April 22), I’m pleased to announce all Fair Trade Sports balls are now being equipped with certified latex by the Forest Stewardship Council.

FSC certification is the same eco-label you see on other forest products at Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Kinko’s. Products bearing the FSC logo guarantee that the product (in our case, latex) came from a certified well-managed forest.

As we discussed earlier, the air bladders inside each of our sports balls - such as our fairly traded rugby ball - are made of latex. This latex now comes from our rubber tree forest in India which has been certified both FSC and Fair Trade.

I hope you are able to enjoy Earth Day outside with family and friends!