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Sustainability Strategy

Our Mission.
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‍To create the best performing products while leaving an ever-smaller footprint on the planet.

We will create the best performing products; leading with recycled, renewable and regenerative materials and leaving an ever-smaller footprint on the planet.
We will lead the circular revolution based on the foundation of our product warranty and pushing the boundaries of circular design.

Our goal is to create net positive impacts on the environment.

SCALE CIRCULARITY
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SOURCE SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

PARTNER WITH SUPPLIERS & RETAILERS

ACCELERATE SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING

Scale Circularity

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‍What is Circular Design?

‍It’s gear that’s built to live on (and on, and on). Our strategic design process considers these four pillars around circularity when crafting our Circular Design products.

Source Better

Use more materials that are recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable and/or regeneratively grown to help reduce our use of finite resources.

Maintain Durability

Craft products that work to resist damage and wear. The most sustainable piece of gear is the one you don’t have to replace

Minimize Waste

Generate as little waste as possible during production and put textile waste and leftover materials to use.

Champion Cyclability

Design products to be more easily broken down and made into new gear at the end of their usable lives.

Circular Design

2022

20 Circular Design styles in initial Fall 2022 launch, 200 styles in F24. Clothesthe Loop replaced with Renewed Take-Back.

‍Renewed & Remade

TNF Renewed

The North Face Renewed takes gear that has been on one adventure and gets it ready for the next. By keeping items in use, we can reduce the number of products ending up on landfills and reducing the environmental impact linked to the production of our products. Customers in the UK can now buy refurbished and verified TNF items on the Renewed website and we’re working on making this available for the rest of Europe soon.

Renewed Remade

Renewed Remade is about taking in the old and creating something entirely new through upcycling, salvaging usable materials and repairing any wear and tear. The North Face’s designers work to make circularity creative and offer customers unique pieces, such as a crossbody bag made from rescued puffers.

Source Sustainable Materials

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Regenerative agriculture

‍Our regenerative materials come from farms focusing on restoring soil health and sequestering carbon into the soil. In spring 2023, we’re launching our first apparel line made with Climate Conscious Cotton from US farms. We’re also working with rubber farmers in Thailand on regenerative agroforestry (or growing rubber trees in a forest instead of a plantation). This rubber is expected to be used in our footwear outsoles in future seasons.

Recycled contents

‍Reusing synthetic materials reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, and in the case of polyester, gives used plastic containers a second life. In fall 2022, more than 85% of our polyester and 75% of our nylon will be made with recycled content.

Exploration Without Compromise

‍We're helping our most sustainable products stand out. When products are made with 75% or greater recycled, regenerative and/or responsibly sourced renewable materials- and if they have a DWR finish, it's non-fluorinated - they earn our Exploration Without Compromise badge. This will be signalled to the customer on the product’s woven label, as well as through a specific hangtag insert.

Partner with suppliers and retailers

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Because most of our environmental impact comes from our products and production, engaging with our partners down the supply chain is essential. For example, thanks to a partnership with the International Finance Corporation, The North Face’s supplier Formosa was able to conduct facility improvement works, allowing them to reduce their electricity and water consumption, as well as their overall greenhouse gas emissions by 10,055 tons per year.

Accelerate sustainable packaging

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To address plastic pollution and reach our goal of eliminating single-use plastic packaging by 2025, a solution is required that eliminates the problem of plastic packaging being shipped to the end of consumer. Removing polybags before they are shipped to the final consumer is a proven solution to addressing this challenge. This is why The North Face has launched the Naked Delivery program, allowing e-commerce customers in the UK and Europe to receive their orders without any excess plastic packaging. The project has already allowed to collect and recycle over 20,000kg of plastic since it was first started.

Explore Fund

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PURPOSE

Since 2010, we’ve been creating access and driving equity in the outdoors by funding hundreds of organisations around two main themes: Enabling Exploration, which is about removing obstacles and empowering people to get out in nature, and Loving Wild Places, focusing on protecting wilderness and ensuring exploration will still be accessible to all in the future.

LOVING WILD PLACES

Some of the programs funded target the removal of single-use pollution from the outdoors, through community-led clean up hikes. Since the beginning of these initiatives, over 6,500km of trails have been freed from rubbish!

ENABLING EXPLORATION

In 2021, along with other major industry actors, The North Face helped set up the Opening Up The Outdoors, or OUTO, initiative. OUTO’s vision is an outdoor community and industry that is truly diverse, equitable, anti-racist and accessible to everyone. You can find out more about their work here.

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Groundwork VIDEO

PEACE OF HISTORY video

The World video

LEARN MORESustainability project

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Facilitating alternative learning through experience and practice within your role as The North face Ambassador.
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The North Face Ambassador Introduction

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We welcome all explorers into our community, and we look forward to supporting you as The North Face Ambassador. CONNECT with our team members and our customers, be CURIOUS to learn every day and CHAMPION our brand and community.

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EXPLORER KNOWLEDGE

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Just like an explorer who explores a new or unfamiliar area. We want to support new The North Face ambassadors within their new environment. The following activities will help prepare every employee with the knowledge requires to become a North Face ambassador from day 1.

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BASE CAMP KNOWLEDGE

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A staging area used by mountaineers to prepare for a climb. To achieve base camp is an accomplishment in its self. You are trained and equipped ready for a new climb. Just like a mountaineer North face Ambassadors have continued with there training and are equipped with the correct knowledge. The following activities will help you reach new heights

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SUMMIT KNOWLEDGE

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To reach the summit (highest point of a hill or mountain). Our North face Ambassadors will continue to push the boundaries, extend their own knowledge and reach the summit of exploration within the role of a North Face ambassador. The following activities will push you and your customers experience to a new summit.

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