By Korrin Bishop
Waste is a world concern. It’s estimated that about 92 million tons of textile waste results in landfills yearly, together with roughly 15% of scrap cloth that will get discarded through the manufacturing course of for clothes, baggage, and different objects. In the meantime, round 11 million metric tons of plastics land within the ocean yearly.
At Gossamer Gear, we acknowledge that it’s our duty to cut back our environmental influence. Our slogan “take much less. do extra.” serves as a reminder to keep up our relentless drive to remove the pointless in life and deal with what’s vital and worthy of doing to serve our clients, our neighborhood, and our wild locations.
Along with persevering with to help gear restore by our partnership with Rugged Thread, we’re excited to be rapidly rising our transition to recycled materials and supplies. These new choices allow us to make the identical nice gear however with a decrease environmental footprint. We invite you all to take much less, do extra—and scale back, reuse, recycle with us!
Why We’re Making the Change to Recycled Materials
As a part of our sustainability efforts, we’re dedicated to remaining on the forefront of latest methods, improvements, and applied sciences that enable for safer and extra sustainable enterprise progress practices. A few of these initiatives embrace:
- ISO 9001:2015 licensed amenities
- PE/EVA foam made out of 50% recycled plastic resin
- OEKO-TEX licensed umbrella materials
- Materials and trims sourced from bluesign® companions
- BetterWork licensed backpack facility
Incorporating extra recycled supplies into our merchandise is a logical subsequent step that aligns with our values. As our CEO Jonathan Schmid defined, “The expertise is lastly right here that permits us to minimize our influence and strengthen our dedication to conserving our wild locations with out sacrificing the sturdiness of our materials.”
We launched this effort in 2023 with our Jet Line, together with the Vagabond Jet Daypack and Bumster Jet Fanny Pack. These merchandise had been switched to recycled 210D Robic nylon, and are readier than ever for light-weight city adventures, workplace commutes, and classy journey. Nevertheless, we knew these two fan favorites had been simply the beginning of our journey into recycled supplies.
Recycled Materials 101: What We’re Incorporating
A lot of our merchandise are switching to recycled Robic nylon cloth that’s licensed as 100% recycled by the World Recycling Customary (GRS). Extra particularly, the supplies embrace:
- 70D cloth that’s 100% post-consumer recycled Robic nylon from ocean plastics. Discarded fishing nets are gathered and repurposed into a brand new fiber that we are able to then use. You possibly can study extra about this course of in this brief video.
- 100D and 210D materials are 100% pre-consumer recycled Robic nylon. This implies they’re made out of manufacturing waste. You possibly can study extra about these materials right here.
- All materials have C0 WR (PFAS-free) on the face and 1,500mm PU on the again.
Our recycled materials have the identical energy and sturdiness as our previous backpacks, however are actually significantly better for the surroundings.
Along with utilizing recycled Robic nylon, we’ve additionally dedicated to utilizing the scrap cloth that outcomes from making our packs for quite a lot of smaller light-weight merchandise we all know our neighborhood will love!
Our Odditty Baggage use cloth left over from developing our packs to supply light-weight storage sacks to be used on and off path. Take pleasure in enjoyable shade combos, high-performing supplies, and the data that you just’re serving to scale back waste by reuse—all whereas organizing your tent stakes, studying glasses, first support objects, and different path wants.
Want a easy method to carry money and playing cards whereas touring or stopping in a path city? Look no additional than the Greenback Collar. This small, zippered pockets is connected to cording to put on as a useful necklace or stylish cross-body bag. A hoop connected to the lanyard enables you to join your keys for simple discovering. Designed with leftover cloth from developing our packs, this pockets helps scale back and reuse for the planet!
Discover Recycled Materials in These Gossamer Gear Merchandise
As talked about earlier, we launched our transfer to recycled materials with the Jet Line in 2023. Since then, we’ve been switching all the pieces to recycled supplies as we’ve positioned new manufacturing orders.
As of December 2024, all of our merchandise have recycled materials besides:
- Pre-2024 variations of backpacks and equipment
- Murmur
- Quick Kumo in S/M
- Minimalist in Grey
- Bumsters in Grey
- Feedbag
- Hipbelt Pocket
- Tyvek merchandise
- All shelters
We’re wanting ahead to persevering with to seek out modern methods to cut back waste and reuse and recycle supplies. You possibly can all the time take a look at our sustainability web page for the newest updates or attain out to the workforce at help@gossamergear.com if in case you have any questions!
Have a Lighter Impression and Lighter Load With Gossamer Gear’s Recycled Cloth Backpacks
As we proceed to make updates to our line of backpacks and equipment, we’re all the time in search of the place we are able to take advantage of influence with what we do.
Have any steps you’re taking to cut back your environmental footprint whereas having fun with our shared wild areas? We’d love to listen to about it! Share your perception with us by tagging Gossamer Gear on social media (@gossamergear) and utilizing the hashtag #takelessdomore.
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