About Patagonia:
Our definition of quality includes a mandate for building products
and working with processes that cause the least harm to the
environment. We evaluate raw materials, invest in innovative
technologies, rigorously police our waste and use a portion of our
sales to support groups working to make a real difference.
We acknowledge that the wild world we love best is disappearing. That is why those of us who work here share a strong commitment to protecting undomesticated lands and waters. We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis.
Common Threads Garment Recycling
Way too much of what is made these days ends up in the trash at the end of its useful life. At Patagonia, we're working to change that.In 2005 we launched our Common Threads Garment Recycling Program, through which customers could return their worn out Capilene® Performance Baselayers to us for recycling. We've since been able to expand the list of recyclable garments to include worn out Patagonia® fleece, Polartec® fleece clothing (from any maker), Patagonia cotton T-shirts, and now some additional polyester and nylon 6 products that come with a Common Threads tag.
Through Common Threads we can transform your unusable garments into new clothing, which gets us closer to a long-standing company goal of taking full responsibility for every product we make.