> The carbon process is creating around 30% of cutting waste and we were told in the factory we visited that Chinese government have given them guidelines that they should simply dump the cutting waste to ocean. That includes the synthetic resins. The workers in China are often living around the factory so their families are also affected by the pollution that the factory is producing. Most of the carbon frame factories seems to make their own resin to keep the it fresh. Yes, the resin gets old so if you produce it too much and it gets old, and that too is simply dumped into the ocean.
Read about why Pole bikes decided against a carbon fiber bike after visiting China.
https://polebicycles.com/why-arent-we-going-for-carbon-frames/
> The carbon process is creating around 30% of cutting waste and we were told in the factory we visited that Chinese government have given them guidelines that they should simply dump the cutting waste to ocean. That includes the synthetic resins. The workers in China are often living around the factory so their families are also affected by the pollution that the factory is producing. Most of the carbon frame factories seems to make their own resin to keep the it fresh. Yes, the resin gets old so if you produce it too much and it gets old, and that too is simply dumped into the ocean.