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Send your used underwear to Patagonia
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

That's ... err ... Patagonia the company, not the place.

Patagonia wants to recycle your "skanky, ripped old underwear" into ski underwear you'd be proud to wear. The idea is to break down old longjohns, knickers and vests “to the molecular level,” making raw polyester material to be turned into new undies. By doing this, less petroleum is used and less CO2 is emitted in the manufacturing process.

This undercover report from Freeskier magazine.

Practical information (probably including the postal address) from http://www.patagonia.com/recycle . Don't send them your cotton stuff, presumably.

Comments on this scheme please.


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 12-09-05 10:55; edited 1 time in total
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

The Patagonia website implies they are looking for the return of a particular fabric type (Capilene) which they sell. This makes sense because it makes the recycling easier if they know exactly what they are reprocessing - I imagine they'll dissolve your pants in some solvent to separate out the polyester.

Personally, I'm always carrying out processes "at the molecular level" wink
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Thanks for clarifying that, Ian. Not quite sure what you mean by the final sentence, though.
Do you do this on mountains?
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David, I do indeed! At the very least I would hope to be converting oxygen molecules and sugar molecules to carbon dioxide molecules and water molecules - otherwise I would be dead Shocked I'm sure you'll be horrified to know I am a regular user of 'nanotechnology' as well.

I guess the alternative to a "molecular level" process for Patagonia would be to painstakingly unravel the returned underwear into fibres sort out any that weren't long enough or didn't like the look off then clean the rest and weave them back together...
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Ian Hopkinson, don't Patagonia make face masks and hats too . . . Shocked

And aren't scientists constantly discovering new bacterial lifeforms that can thrive in incredibly toxic conditions.

Adding two and two I'm getting a bad picture of Mother Nature doing her best to make me breath through someone else's pants or wear them on my head wink
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Masque, It would probably be like being up someone else's butt, and not your own (to quote your mother) Laughing
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