Sustainability

What are merino wool standards and how can we make sense of the different certifications?

With 66 per cent of everything we create now made from recycled or natural sources, let’s sit down with our senior materials manager, Rebekah Ziegner, for a closer look at how we’re working with recycled products.

This summer we will release six new styles for kids made from factory scraps and introduce more each year for the next three years. In that time, we expect to divert 12.3 tones of fabric from being thrown out or incinerated.

While we put a lot of work into minimizing our footprint where possible, shipping is a necessary part of our business. From samples to distribution – each step requires moving product from A to B. We’re not alone in this process. We are however responsible for it – one of the reasons why we’re working to make it more sustainable. Here’s how.

Plastic’s unintended consequences are catching up with the planet. What to do with the ones we use most?

BY MARK COHEN This week marks the start of Give Back Days – a program designed to support our partner, Protect Our Winters Switzerland, to give climate advocacy the voice it deserves. Here’s how it works.

Sustainability has always been part of our brand’s DNA. As a company committed to preserving the environment, we are aware that the textile industry consumes large amount of water in its varied processing operations and we are committed to minimize our footprint. For our outdoor range, we use the Drydye® dyeing process, which drastically reduces the water consumption of the dyeing process.

Our classic baselayers have been redesigned with a whole new mindset: to offer the best quality while reducing the environmental impact to a minimum. The result is a high-level gear made from 100% recycled materials. On average, to produce one Active Warm Eco baselayer we use 13 recycled 0.5-litre PET bottles.

Every second, one truckload of textiles is landfilled or incinerated. Globally, only around 20% of all used garments are collected for reuse or recycling. At ODLO we are committed to giving used sports clothes a second life, so they don’t end up polluting our landfills.AT