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BREAD+BUTTER / Sustainability
SKILLED SECOND HANDS
Yolanda Ortiz, one of
Renewal Workshop's
original repair technicians,
stitches a new zipper
onto a PrAna down
jacket at the company's
Oregon warehouse.
The Renewal Workshop
Even companies with the best eco-intentions build apparel that ends up in landfills,
but this Oregon-based re-commerce shop gives new life to worn-out technical clothing
and then sells it back to conscious consumers. by David Hanson
EVERYONE LOVES THE GENEROUS WARRANTY PROVIDED BY MOST OUTDOOR BRANDS. A SEAM
tears, a zipper blows-out, a button vanishes-return it and they replace it. But what happens to the
clothes we send back? The vast majority do not end up being re-sold at an end-of-season sale or second-hand shop. They go to the landfill. Roughly 13 million tons of clothing hit landfills each year,
which is 9 percent of total non-recyclable material. The life cyle of most of our clothes is short and
flat and clearly not brutish enough.
Renewal Workshop (RW) co-founders Nicole Bassett and Jeff Denby believe their start-up can
help change that. In 2015 Bassett and Denby set out to bend that flat line into a circle, and a major
shift toward sustainability is happening quickly inside RW's generic, aluminum-sided factory in
the sleepy Columbia River town of Cascade Locks, Oregon.
This isn't their first rodeo. Bassett, 41, worked on social responsibility at Patagonia and supplychain sustainability with Prana, while Denby, 40, co-founded PACT, a line of fair-trade, organiccotton underwear. Both Canadians, they spent their early careers in California, gleaning from both
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the apparel world and the Bay Area's start-up
scene. With RW, they've leapfrogged from new
production to a secondary production line,
partnering with apparel brands to gather returned clothing, clean it, fix it, and co-brand it
for resale at a 30- to 40-percent discount off the
original price.
"Re-commerce has been getting a lot
of traction and growing over the past few
years," says Bassett. "The success of Ebay,
Yerdle,ThreadUp, and Tradesy demonstrates
how much value is left in products. We saw an
opportunity for brands to own the process of
Photographs by David Hanson
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018
OUTDOOR RETAILER - SUMMER 2018
CONTENTS
THE PULSE
HEADLINES
MERCHANDISING
MARKETING
BIG PICTURE
CASE STUDY
IDEAS
CHRISTIAN DE LA IGLESIA
SHIRA EPSTEIN
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
RESEARCH
SAWYER LAND + SEA
DISASTER STRIKES
BE THE BRAND
BREAD+BUTTER
PADDLING HARDGOODS
THE RENEWAL WORKSHOP
BROWN GIRLS CLIMB
COUNTER CULTURE
THE VIEW
HOW I GOT HERE
FROM THE ROAD
#REPLIFE
BACKSTORY
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - MARKETING
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - BIG PICTURE
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - CASE STUDY
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - IDEAS
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - CHRISTIAN DE LA IGLESIA
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - SHIRA EPSTEIN
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - RESEARCH
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - SAWYER LAND + SEA
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - DISASTER STRIKES
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - BE THE BRAND
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - BREAD+BUTTER
Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - PADDLING HARDGOODS
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - THE RENEWAL WORKSHOP
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - BROWN GIRLS CLIMB
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - COUNTER CULTURE
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - THE VIEW
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - HOW I GOT HERE
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - FROM THE ROAD
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Outdoor Retailer - Summer 2018 - #REPLIFE
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