SALEWA Eco Down Project

The Salewa Eco Down Strategy presents down sleeping bags made of sustainable materials. The holistic approach to an environmentally friendly product involves recycling old sleeping bags. The process starts at our stores in Italy and Germany, where we collect used sleeping bags and deliver them to our partner who, then, takes them apart and sanitises the down filling. The next step is for this strategy to be expanded internationally and, in particular, to be implemented by all our of retail partners. In Europe, the down will also be sterilised, put through an antimicrobial “silver treatment”, and then be sorted by fill power. Finally, the down will be integrated into new sleeping bags that are made entirely of (bluesign®-certified) recycled polyester. Even the zips will be recycled. In order to keep CO2 emissions as low as possible, the entire production and distribution process will take place within the EU.