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PACKAGING
Guidelines:
The North Face®
has adopted the Outdoor Industry Association’s Packaging Guidelines, which are a valuable tool for further evaluating our overall packaging process and finding new ways to eliminate avoidable waste.
Recycling:
We have developed a plastic bag recycling program in conjunction with Terracycle to divert 100% of our polybag packaging waste from landfill at our retail stores and headquarters.
Closed Loop Tote: For this project, we took thousands of yards of scrap fabric and turned it into reusable tote-bags which are sold at our retail stores. One dollar from the sale of each bag sold goes to the Children and Nature Network, an organization connecting children with nature.
Footwear: In 2008, we converted our footwear boxes to 75% post consumer recycled content and replaced the tissue paper with a recycled foot form that also doubled as a product info hangtag. The change resulted in saving the equivalent of 22,776 trees, the emissions of 181 cars, the energy to power 214 houses for a year and 24 Olympic swimming pools of water.
Hang Tags: The North Face converted all of its hangtags to 100% recycled content paper and vegetable based inks in 2008. This saved us 640 tons of wood, the equivalent of the energy to power 36 homes for a year and 4 Olympic swimming pools of water per year. This project resulted in a cost savings of $300,000.
Guidelines:
The North Face
®
has adopted the Outdoor Industry Association’s Packaging Guidelines, which are a valuable tool for further evaluating our overall packaging process and finding new ways to eliminate avoidable waste.
Recycling:
We have developed a plastic bag recycling program in conjunction with Terracycle to divert 100% of our polybag packaging waste from landfill at our retail stores and headquarters.
Closed Loop Tote: For this project, we took thousands of yards of scrap fabric and turned it into reusable tote-bags which are sold at our retail stores. One dollar from the sale of each bag sold goes to the Children and Nature Network, an organization connecting children with nature.
Footwear: In 2008, we converted our footwear boxes to 75% post consumer recycled content and replaced the tissue paper with a recycled foot form that also doubled as a product info hangtag. The change resulted in saving the equivalent of 22,776 trees, the emissions of 181 cars, the energy to power 214 houses for a year and 24 Olympic swimming pools of water.
Hang Tags: The North Face converted all of its hangtags to 100% recycled content paper and vegetable based inks in 2008. This saved us 640 tons of wood, the equivalent of the energy to power 36 homes for a year and 4 Olympic swimming pools of water per year. This project resulted in a cost savings of $300,000.
