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Professional backcountry skier Baker Boyd
tests the latest Polartec fabric prototypes.
Quality control is a hands-on process at
Polartec’s finishing plant in Cleveland, Tenn.
Recycled fabrics begin as spools of yarn
made from recycled plastic waste.
An employee takes a break at Polartec’s
Raschel Knitting facility in Hudson, N.H.
Polartec has diverted about 1.5 billion plastic bottles
from landfi lls and manufactured more than 200 styles
with a minimum of 50 percent recycled content.