Complete the circle.
Our responsibility as a brand 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, 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. During product development we test the materials we use in our internal lab to ensure they hit our performance and quality standards.
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Designing with Circularity Principles
Our product development, design and materials teams create CircularDesign products with 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 Preferred Materials
Use materials that are recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable* and/or grown using regenerative agriculture practices to help reduce our use of finite resources.
Maintain Durability
Craft products made with materials tested in our internal lab to ensure they hit our performance and quality standards.
Recover leftover materials
Reduce waste, including putting textile waste and leftover materials to use, for example recycling cutting scraps from a selection of our T1 partners factories.
Craft for Cyclability
Design products to be more easily broken down and made into new gear at the end of their usable lives.
*: defined as materials derived from inputs that naturally replenish in a human’s lifetime.
For example, lyocell, which is derived from cellulose, with responsible forestry management certification, such as Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification.
Give old gear new life.
Renewed is our refurbished and upcycled product platform where customers can buy used, including one-of-a-kind REMADE pieces.
REMADE
As the creative collection sitting under the Renewed programme, 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.
Take-back
Drop your used The North Face gear into one of our Take-back bins, we'll refurbish, donate or recycle it and you'll receive a discount on your next purchase.