Patagonia - November 18, 2025

Are we a paradox?

We exist to save our home planet—but our products harm it.

A person walking in a warehouse holding a pile of clothes.

At Patagonia, we’re knee-deep in contradictions. We run the largest repair center in North America, yet about 85% of our products lack an end-of-life solution. We’ve nearly eliminated the use of virgin fossil fuels in our products, but some of the factories that make our gear still burn coal. So, are we making progress? We’ll let you be the judge.

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Wetsuit repair technicians evaluate a piece.

Our repair program reached new heights in FY25. Here’s a rundown of the hits:

174,799 products repaired across the globe.137,106 products traded in. 212,000 products.

Now the bad news: We emitted 182,646 metric tons of CO2.

Make 100% of products with preferred materials?

Eliminate forever chemicals from our product line?

Ensure 50% of synthetics use secondary waste?

Provide a living wage for all workers at our supply chain factories?

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Photos: (Top) Give us your dirty and your torn. Not all gear you send us for repairs or recycling can get a second life. The ones that are too dirty or destroyed are being piled up in our distribution center in Reno, Nevada. And that pile is growing. KEN ETZEL (Middle) Wetsuit repairs technicians Buddy Pendergast (left) and Hector Castro (middle) at our 2023 Wetsuit Forge repair event in New Hampshire. RYAN STRUCK (Bottom) Caribou on the coastal plains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. FLORIAN SCHULZ

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