If the average spa used in the USA is an eight-foot by eight-foot hot tub and each one is covered with a two-inch thick foam cover that would be a little more than 10.5 cubic feet per spa cover. All foam filled covers eventually become too heavy to lift or broken. If that cover is replaced every two years, that’s another 10.5 cubic feet of foam added to landfills.
There are roughly 10 million spa owners in the USA. Replacing their spa covers every two years would add 52.5 million cubic feet of foam to land fills every year. That means enough foam to build a duplicate of Hoover Dam or a two-lane highway from Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida, every two years out of discarded foam spa covers.
There is a solution. The best alternative is to use hot tub covers that do not use foam. Now thanks to the internet spa owners can shop online for a better kind of cover.
One alternative is an air filled cover. Using air chambers to insulate works well and since there is no foam it keeps ten and a half more cubic feet of foam from ending up in the landfill.
Things to look for when replacing a hot tub cover would be light weight, durable but most significantly without any rigid foam inserts. One such cover can be found at SpaCap.com.
Hot Tub owners should look for these specifics:
