Columbia’s Rethreads program encourages consumers to bring in their used clothing and shoes in clean, dry condition, to Columbia retail stores to be given a new life. Garments and footwear that are dropped in ReThreads bins are sent to a textiles processing facility through I:CO, a leading global textiles recycling solutions provider whose aim is to keep used clothing and shoes in an everlasting life cycle where these items can be reprocessed, reused and recycled again and again. The products are then sorted, reprocessed and reused or recycled. Items that are still wearable find new homes through the second-hand market. Unwearable items are reused for products like cleaning cloths or recycled into fibers for new products such as insulation, carpet padding, stuffing for toys and even new fabrics. ReThreads is available in all U.S. Brand and Outlet locations. Find a Columbia store near you,
here.