And for its fall collection, the amount is expected to increase from 45 percent last year to 65 percent this fall. The amount of recyclable items in Patagonia's spring collection has gone from 28 percent last year to 38 percent this year. But that is still nowhere close to the amount of items Patagonia sells or that get tossed in the trash. Since the start of Common Threads, Patagonia has recycled more than 13,200 pounds of garments, and collected much more. Around that time Patagonia also started working with another company, Toray, which developed a recycling program for items made of nylon 6. The collection program also expanded to include some board shorts, polyester jackets and nylon items, and later that year Patagonia unveiled the first recyclable nylon waterproof and breathable shell.
A year later Patagonia started labeling clothes that were accepted through Common Threads with instructions on what to do with them at the end of their lives. The Common Threads program grew in spring 2007 when other Capilene apparel was included, along with 100 percent cotton T-shirts, Patagonia fleece and Polartec fleece jackets from any clothing brand. Teijin, a Japanese textile company, developed a garment-to-garment recycling process for the underwear, and Patagonia found out that using Capilene underwear as a raw material instead of petroleum uses 76 percent less energy and emits 42 percent less carbon dioxide. The first product collected and recycled through Common Threads was Patagonia's polyester-spandex Capilene underwear, chosen because underwear is simple, has no buttons or zippers and isn't typically handed down. The Common Threads program collects only certain Patagonia products or types of clothing the company takes back only what it knows it can recycle.
However, it just might make all its apparel recyclable by then. In short, the company has learned a whole lot about what it takes to make clothing and other outdoor gear recyclable, but it's unlikely Patagonia's entire catalog will be recyclable by fall 2010. With one and half years until it reaches that deadline, Patagonia has compiled a lengthy look at the Common Threads program. When Patagonia finalized its Common Threads Garment Recycling Program in fall 2005, is set out to make all its products recyclable by late 2010.
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