To reduce our impact on the environment, we audit the materials and methods we use to make our products, taking responsibility for the entire lifecycle of our products and examining how we use resources at our buildings and facilities through our holistic approach.
Patagonia engages in a range of due diligence activities to promote fair labor practices and ensure good working conditions in our factories. Over 50,000 workers have benefited from our commitment to the Fair Trade Certified™ program.
Patagonia will promote the concept that everyone must learn to consume less and use resources far more productively – as well as innovate as quickly and ingeniously as possible to reduce adverse human impact on the natural systems that support all life.
Among the most direct ways we can limit ecological impacts is with goods that last for generations or can be recycled so the materials in them remain in use. We also ensure that Patagonia products are produced under safe, fair, legal and humane working conditions throughout the supply chain.
Making the best product matters for saving the planet.
We believe the environmental crisis has reached a critical tipping point. Without commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, defend clean water and air, and divest from dirty technologies, humankind as a whole will destroy our planet’s ability to repair itself.
At Patagonia, the protection and preservation of the environment isn’t what we do after hours. It’s the reason we’re in business and every day’s work.
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Waste-stream materials recycled
Supported sustainability activities
At Patagonia, we are constantly evaluating new materials and re-evaluating existing ones in our quest to make the best product. Environmental assessment is a key component of our strategy and drives which materials we should celebrate, which ones we should use with caution, and which materials we should avoid altogether.
Around 72% of our materials are made from recycled fibers. Switching to recycled allowed us to avoid 11,500 metric tons of CO²e, enough to power 1,300 homes for one year.
Why Recycled?
Patagonia engages in a range of due diligence activities to promote fair labor practices and ensure good working conditions in our factories.
We have built up a robust social responsibility program that analyzes and manages the impacts our business has on the workers and communities in our supply chain.
In this time of unprecedented threats, it’s often hard to know the best way to get involved.
That’s why we’re connecting individuals with our grantees, in order to take action on the most pressing issues facing the world today.
We support innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis.
We give 1% of our sales to support environmental organizations around the world, funding at the grassroots level in countries and communities where we have people on the ground.
For almost 40 years, Patagonia has supported grassroots activists working to find solutions to the environmental crisis. But in this time of unprecedented threats, it’s often hard to know the best way to get involved. That’s why we’re connecting individuals with our grantees, to take action on the most pressing issues facing the world today.
Patagonia relies on the brains and resources of several key partners who work to improve labor conditions worldwide, restrict the use of dangerous chemicals, increase transparency of social and environmental practices throughout the supply chain, and help redefine business health to include the safeguarding of natural systems and thriving human communities.
B Corps are certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
FFC provides collaborative software for brands to secure compliance with humane labor standards, while reducing audit costs and overlaps.
The FLA works with multiple stakeholders, including brands and factories to protect workers’ rights and improve working conditions worldwide.
The Eco Working Group consists of more than 100 outdoor businesses working to develop the outdoor industry's first environmental assessment tool.
Audits the water, energy and chemical usage of supply-chain partners and helps them achieve continuous, long-term environmental improvement.
An industry-wide group of leading apparel and footwear brands and others working to develop an industrywide index of social and environmental impact.
A non-profit organization that shares best practices across the entire value chain – from farmers and raw material providers to brands, retailers, and consumers.
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Van Wimbilton
11 January 2020Can't say enough positive about Patagonia - durable clothing and sustainable production.
Brand Response
Thanks for the positive words of appreciation. Patagonia always believes in its commitment to sustainability.
Erika W
17 November 2019Their products, in my opinion, live up to the hype. Extremely high quality, use sustainable manufacturing processes that are better for the environment though more $$.
Beccah
2 December 2019I expect Patagonia to explore ways of responsibly producing goods at competitive prices.