A Colorado pilot · Mat Amnesty

Trade Plastic.
Transform Practice!

Your old yoga mat can’t be recycled. We found it a job instead.

Bring any plastic mat — any brand, any condition, however sad it looks — and take 40% off a Kaya mat made of cork or organic cotton. Your old one goes to a Colorado reuse yard that puts the material back to work in other industries. It never returns to a yoga studio.

START YOUR TRADE SEE WHERE THE MATS GO

✓ Any brand, any condition
✓ Handed to a Colorado reuse yard
✓ Never resold, never returned to practice
✓ Every mat counted publicly

A yoga mat has two lives. Yours is the first one.

Somewhere in your closet is the mat that carried you here. The one you bought when you were new to this, that held you through the hard classes, whose corners curl now and whose surface has gone slick and flaky. You’ve outgrown it. But you can’t quite throw it away, because throwing it away feels like the opposite of everything the practice taught you.

So it sits there. Rolled up. Waiting.

Here’s the honest truth about that mat: it cannot be recycled. Not in Boulder, not in Denver, not anywhere in America.

It’s PVC or foam — the wrong plastic, laminated to other wrong plastics. Every recycling program that ever promised to take yoga mats has quietly shut down. Put it in your bin and you contaminate the load. Put it in the trash and it outlives you.

So we found it a second life instead — a real one, with a job.

We’ve partnered with repurposedMATERIALS, an industrial-reuse yard in Lafayette, Colorado whose entire business is finding new work for material other industries have finished with. Conveyor belts. Billboard vinyl. Fire hose. Floor matting. Things too tough to throw away and too specific to recycle — sold on to the industries that need exactly that toughness. Their motto is the whole idea in one line: it is not a waste until it is wasted.

Your old mat is exactly what they’re good at. Tough, waterproof, grippy, cushioned. Useless for your practice. Genuinely useful on a workshop floor, in a horse trailer, under heavy equipment, on a barn aisle.

And this is the part we won’t compromise on: your mat never comes back to yoga.

We don’t resell trade-ins. We don’t donate them to another studio or hand them to someone else as a yoga mat. If plastic doesn’t belong under your hands and your breath, it doesn’t belong under anyone’s. The mats leave the practice permanently — they go to work somewhere else, in industries where that material earns its keep.

You get 40% off a mat made of cork or organic cotton. Your old mat gets an honest retirement. Nobody has to pretend anything was recycled.

Bring the mat that got you here. Leave with the one that lasts.

How the trade works

Bring the mat

Any brand, any condition — flaking, curling, split down the middle. Bring it to a Kaya booth at a Colorado event. We take it from there.

Take 40% off, that day

Choose any cork or organic-cotton mat and the discount comes off on the spot. One trade per person. No stacking, no coupon to remember.

We publish where it went

Every mat is counted at collection and every outbound batch is weighed and dated. We publish the totals — including anything we could not find a use for.

What you’ll pay

40% off, flat, on any mat below. One trade per person.

Mat	Regular	With trade-in
KayaBloom Lite Foldable travel cork	$129	$77.40
KayaBloom Core Premium cork	$159	$95.40
Mudra — Terra Engraved cork	$159	$95.40
Kaya Heritage Handloomed organic cotton · at events only	$199	$119.40

Prices shown are our everyday prices — we haven’t raised anything ahead of this campaign. Heritage cotton is priced by thickness; the trade-in applies to whichever you choose. Kaya Heritage is available at our events only — it is no longer sold on this site.

Where to trade

This is a Colorado pilot before it’s an internet thing. Trades happen in person, at our booth — that’s the only way we can look at a mat, take it properly, and hand you the new one the same day.

First stop

Camp Alderwild

August 28–29, 2026 · Telluride
The first Mat Amnesty. Bring your mat to the Kaya booth.

Then

Denver Yoga Summit

September 11–13, 2026 · Chatfield Farms
Look for the Plastic Mat Retirement Box at the Kaya booth.

More Colorado dates are being added — subscribe below and we’ll tell you when a trade stop lands near you.

Where the mats go

Every mat we take is counted at collection. Every outbound batch is weighed and dated. When the pilot closes we publish the totals here — how many mats came in, where they went, and what we couldn’t find a use for.

That last number matters. A reuse yard sells what it can sell; anything genuinely unsellable may still be discarded, and we’d rather tell you that up front than claim a tidy hundred percent. We’ll report what actually happened.

The honest limits

· This pilot can take about 300 mats. When we hit that, we stop and say so. We’d rather run out loudly than quietly stop honouring it.
· In person only, for now. Mailing a rolled mat across the country costs more in freight and processing than the mat is worth — we won’t pretend otherwise by offering a shipping label we can’t sustain.
· We say reuse, not recycling. Recycling means reprocessing material into new material. That is not what happens to your mat, and calling it recycling would be the easy lie.
· One trade per person, while campaign supplies last.

What you’re trading up to

Cork, natural rubber, organic cotton. Materials you can name, from plants — not a petrochemical laminate that flakes as it ages.

Cork on natural rubber

Portuguese cork, heat-pressed onto a natural rubber base with no chemical glues. Grip that gets stronger the more you sweat.

Handloomed organic cotton

Kaya Heritage rugs, woven on a handloom and coloured with Ayurvedic herbal dyes, with a rubber-weaved underside that holds on any floor.

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Bring the mat that got you here.

Leave with the one that lasts.

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