NEMO’s New Recycled Forte Endless Promise Sleeping Bag
Luke Cuenco 05.01.23
One thing I absolutely love about the recreational outdoor industry is the uniting commitment most of us have toward both making good use of and also preserving our precious wildlands. NEMO’s new Forte Endless Promise sleeping bag is just their latest environmentally conscious product offering. The Forte Endless Promise is a 100% recyclable sleeping bag that not only reduces waste when your sleeping bag has gone through its use lifecycle but also makes the Endless Promise more repairable since it only uses a single material family.
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NEMO’s New Recycled Forte Endless Promise Sleeping Bag
{Dover, NH—April 24, 2023}—NEMO, the award-winning, independent designer of outdoor gear and accessories built to improve the adventure experience, has created its first recyclable sleeping bag with theupdated Forte™ Men’s and Women’s 20F/35F series. It is also the first product in NEMO’s Endless Promise™series, which represents a key step toward the brand’s goal to cut emissions intensity in half by 2030. With this new collection, NEMO is taking responsibility for the entire life cycle of each product. Every Endless Promise item is designed to be repairable, resellable, and — most crucially — recyclable to keep it out of the landfill.
To make an immediate impact with this collection, NEMO took its existing top-selling, 3-season Spoon™ shape synthetic sleeping bag and redesigned it using just a single material family. Now 100% recyclable, the 2023 Forte is a standout in sustainability as well as comfort and performance.
- The Classic Spoon™ shape continues to be a game changer for side sleepers, offering more room at the shoulders and knees for a less-constricted feel.
- Upgraded Thermo Gill™ vents feature a new multistage zipper system that dramatically increases the usable temperature range of the bag and allows for fine-tuning of comfort.
- Oversized Blanket Fold™ insulated draft collar provides comfort and temperature regulation.
- Integrated pillow pocket perfectly fits NEMO’s Fillo™ pillow or extra clothes.
- Full-length double-slider YKK zipper with plow makes getting in and out a breeze.
- A material suite including: Recycled liner; bluesign® approved shell fabric; and Zerofiber™ PCR insulation (made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials)that packs down small while maintaining loft and warmth, even when wet.
Endless Promise is NEMO’s commitment to reduce resource consumption and keep gear out of the landfill. All Endless Promise products are painstakingly designed to be mono-polymer in order to be easily, fully recyclable at the end of their usable life. The new line of Forte bags can be sent to NEMO for resale or recycling; customers will receive a NEMO gift card for the resale value if the bag is in good enough condition for a new owner or, if the bag has reached the end of its adventures, a $20 NEMO gift card as thanks for recycling. NEMO has partnered with Unifi, a leading textile recycler, to turn spent Fortes into Repreve® polyester yarns so each Endless Promise product can live on, endlessly, as a new item.
“From the start, NEMO has produced only products that deserve their place in the world by being truly different and better than what already exists,” said NEMO CEO and founder, Cam Brensinger. “We do this because we’re hyper-aware of the resources required—and waste created—by manufacturing. In our earliest years, we introduced the “Ditto” program, which upcycled production samples and manufacturing rejects turned into (now, highly coveted) wallets and totes. In 2009, we also launched the first recycled fabric tent with bamboo poles. With our Endless Promise Collection, we’re not just being mindful, we’re taking 100% responsibility for our products, long after they’re sold.”
The updated Forte Men’s and Women’s bags are available on NEMO’s site now and will be at retailers worldwide in June 2023.
NEMO has also just published its first annual Sustainability Report recapping the brand’s efforts in 2022 towards its goal of cutting its emissions intensity in half by 2030. Through key areas—Design & Innovation, Responsible Sourcing, Carbon Accountability, Advocacy for People and the Planet, and Corporate Governance—NEMO is using Science Based Targets to reach its goal and create products that are not only better for the planet, but superior in performance.
The NEMO Endless Promise sleeping bag is available in both a 20F and 35F regular or long design for both men and women. You can expect to pay about $219.95 for the bag and when you’ve used it as long as you deem fit, you can simply request a free return label from NEMO which you can use to ship back your used Forte for recycling, and NEMO will even give you a $20 gift card as thanks for recycling your bag instead of tossing it into the landfill! For more information on both the new Forte Sleeping bag and NEMO’s new Endless Promise series, you can visit their website here.
