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Product Safety Recall

Due to safety concerns about the snaps on the Infant Capilene® Midweight Set, we are implementing a recall of units purchased between August 1, 2021, and January 12, 2023. For more information, including how to identify this product, how to return it and how to get a full refund, please click the link below.

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Rappel de produit pour cause de sécurité

En raison de préoccupations en matière de sécurité concernant les boutons-pression des ensembles Infant Capilene® Midweight, nous procédons au rappel de toutes les unités achetées entre le 1ᵉʳ août 2021 et le 12 janvier 2023. Pour obtenir des renseignements supplémentaires, notamment sur la façon de reconnaître ce produit, de le retourner et d’obtenir un remboursement complet, veuillez cliquer sur le lien ci-dessous.

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Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder

If we have any hope of a thriving planet—much less a business—it is going to take all of us doing what we can with the resources we have. This is what we can do.

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Recycled Wool

We use recycled wool to extend the life span of a valuable fiber that has already been produced.

Why

Wool is a natural fiber that insulates, breathes and lasts for a long time. Producing wool, however, is resource-intensive. It requires vast amounts of land for grazing sheep, water to clean the fiber, chemicals to treat the wool and dyes to color the finished product. We use recycled wool to extend the useful life of fiber that has already been produced. As a result, we can make clothing with the same great qualities as virgin wool at a fraction of the environmental cost.

We’re making progress

Producing wool is resource-intensive. By using recycled wool, we can make clothing at a fraction of the environmental cost.
94%

The percentage of CO₂e emissions reduction we’ve achieved by using recycled wool fibers instead of virgin wool.

Where We Are

Recycled wool has been used in European textiles for hundreds of years. We get our recycled wool from both post-industrial sources, such as factory scraps, and postconsumer ones, such as returned garments. After we collect the wool, we sort it by color and mechanically shred the fibers so they can be re-spun into new yarn. Most of our recycled wool is blended with recycled polyester to increase the strength of the yarn and the durability of the fabric. Over the years, we’ve used more and more recycled wool, but since recycled wool yarn blends are not as fine as virgin wool yarns, that limits the types of products we can offer.

Recycled wool isn’t only in yarn. The Italian company Cashpad makes insulation material from recycled wool and cashmere similar to insulation you'd find in our Nano Puff® styles. In our Fall line, we use this warm wool insulation in our Women’s Seldom Traveled Jacket.

For the Spring 2023 season, 9% of our wool products are made with recycled wool. Compared to using virgin wool, we kept more than 39,000 pounds of CO₂e from being emitted into the atmosphere.

What’s Next

We will continue to use recycled wool in our fleece styles and knits. In addition to offering more recycled wool products, our goal is to further support recyclers so we can expand on the types of recycled wool products we create.

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