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When products cannot be resold or donated, we partner with specialized regional recyclers to help keep them out of landfills. These items are carefully sorted into distinct material streams, based on their composition. Once separated, these resources are processed into raw materials.
The regional recyclers keep our raw materials in use. For now, this means they will mostly be recycled to make industrial materials such as insulation panels or filling for various applications. This helps us keep materials in motion when On products reach the end of their life.
Once we receive a sufficient amount of used gear, we process it for recycling. We grind down the recyclable material in the Cloudneo, the Cloudrise Cyclon, Cloudrise Cyclon 1.1 and the Cyclon-T into pellets for new shoe parts. As for the Cloudeasy Cyclon, we separate the upper from the bottom unit and use fiber-to-fiber recycling to turn the used upper into yarn. Then, we grind down the shoe's bottom and send the material to recyclers who make other products.
The story behind the Cloudrise Cyclon 1.1
In 2022, we launched Cyclon™ with a subscription for products designed to be recycled. And over time, that dream kept growing. Today, Cyclon™ is our brand-wide circular services program, through which we aim to take responsibility for all the products we sell.
