Sanitization at the gym has moved beyond wiping down the bench or bike with a towel and disinfectant. It’s gravitating toward self-cleaning equipment that wipes sweat away and keeps people protected from harmful bacteria.
A Pittsburgh-based company is making sure gym-goers have that kind of access to the equipment on which they might sweat the most. SilverSport, a brand derived from Eco Product Group, offers a workout towel, a Pilates roller and a yoga mat with what it calls its Silver Clean Zone. Each product represents one of those zones by using Terra Silver to eliminate more than 650 types of surface-borne, odor-causing bacteria.
Thomas Davis, president of Eco Product Group, told Wired.com that nanosilver particles — up to 20,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — are to thank for the equipment’s odor-killing prowess.
“The material [in the products] is silver,” Davis said. “Silver happens to be a natural anti-microbial. It fights bacteria naturally.”
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