Remember when Patagonia introduced recycled down in their beyond-fab Bivy jackets and I was obsessed? I’m—if possible—even more obsessed with their new recycled cashmere collection. We took cashmere scraps, spun them with five percent virgin wool for strength, and created a luxurious new cashmere collection with a much lower ecological impact than virgin cashmere. 95%…
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Obsession: 100% Recycled Down from Patagonia
100% Recycled Down! How cool is this?? Patagonia has created their signature jackets and vests with recycled down. It’s a mix of 600-fill-power goose and duck down reclaimed from used items (mostly quilts and pillows), which is cleaned, sorted and resurrected. It offers identical performance benefits to virgin down. As if I wasn’t obsessed with…