Complete the circle.
Our responsibility to the earth—and to you—includes ideating smarter designs that make raw materials go further, while crafting products that are durable and high quality, then backing those products with our Warranty and Repairs and Renewed programs.
Our Circularity Commitment
Our goal is to scale up the number of products that fall under our Circular Design guidelines, improve our ability to circulate products and materials to keep them in use and convert 10% of our polyester and nylon volume to textile-to-textile recycled content by 2030.
Our Circularity Ecosystem
Product Quality
We believe in making high-quality, durable products that you can use for a lifetime. During product development we rigorously test the materials we use in our internal lab to ensure they hit our performance and quality standards.
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Limited Lifetime Warranty
Our Warranty & Repairs Department has kept adventures going since 1969, repairing roughly 40,000 items per year. We were one of the first outdoor brands to honor a lifetime warranty—because good gear deserves a long life.
Designing with Circularity Principles
Our product development, design and materials teams create CircularDesign products with intentional materials and construction choices in order to be able to recycle the raw materials when the products are worn out.
We developed our Circular Design products around four circularity pillars that affect our gear during every stage of production, from material sourcing to the end of the product’s usable life. Products that have the Circular Design labels use materials that have been validated for recycling by our partners and have been designed for efficient disassembly of their components for recycling.
Source Better
Use more materials that are recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable and/or regeneratively grown to help reduce our use of finite resources.
Maintain Durability
Craft products that work to resist damage and wear. The most sustainable piece of gear is the one you don’t have to replace.
Minimize Waste
Generate as little waste as possible during production and put textile waste and leftover materials to use.
Craft for Cyclability
Design products to be more easily broken down and made into new gear at the end of their usable lives.
Renewed
Renewed is our refurbished and upcycled product platform where customers can buy used, including one-of-a-kind REMADE pieces, or trade-in their unwanted The North Face gear.
REMADE
REMADE is a design-focused approach to product reuse by creating one-of-a-kind, unique items out of used and damaged products that we collect through Renewed.
Trade-In
Trade-in your old The North Face gear by mail or in-store and we’ll give you $10, $30 or $50 credit for each eligible item to use towards your next purchase.