The Páramo Recycling Scheme
If you no longer need your Páramo, we'll take it back.
Páramo is always looking for the path of least environmental impact. The Páramo Recycling Scheme is our way of providing a safe route for disposal of unwanted garments. We'll take back any Páramo product (except underwear), and either find it a new home, or recycle it into new fabric. As a reward for your effort in getting old gear back to us, you can expect a generous discount on new Páramo products.
Repair and re-use...
It is always preferable to re-use before recycling, so if an old garment can be refurbished at reasonable cost, our expert workshop will do so. Repaired and refurbished items then make their way to appreciative new owners via Páramo Recycled on eBay.
Recycle...
If an item is beyond repair, it is stripped of any useful components and baled up ready for shipping to a specialist recycling facility. We aim to use a chemical recycling process which, unlike traditional textile recycling, preserves the value and quality of the material. This ensures the material doesn't enter a spiral of "downcycling" which eventually ends up in landfill. Your old garment will become high quality fabric rather than cheap and disposable cushion filling.
Recycling reduces the need for landfill...
By recycling polyester, we divert it from the main alternative which is to bury it at landfill sites. Creating new landfill sites is becoming increasingly difficult to do without destroying areas of natural habitat and aesthetic beauty. The less polyester we send to landfill, the less we have to dig up the countryside.
Recycling reduces carbon dioxide emissions...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas, and as such a driver of climate change. There are two ways in which recycling polyester can reduce CO2 emissions. Firstly, it eliminates the risk of the fabric being incinerated as a means of disposal, which would release the carbon locked up in the material. Secondly, it requires less energy to recycle polyester than is required to replace it with virgin polyester made from scratch. Most of the energy used in industry still comes from burning fossil fuels, so a saving in energy means a saving in CO2 emissions.
Recycling reduces the demand for extraction of raw materials...
The raw material used to make polyester is crude oil. Extracting oil from the ground is a dirty business, laden with environmental and social risks (see Deepwater Horizon, Canadian tar sands, Amazonian pollution). By recycling polyester, we conserve the material we've already extracted and help reduce the need for more drilling.
Our fabrics are uniquely suited for recycling...
The Nikwax Analogy fabric system is what makes Páramo waterproof clothing so durable and easy to repair. This same system, which avoids the need for mixed materials, membranes and taped seams, also makes our gear uniquely suited for recycling. It uses 100% polyester, which unlike most other materials, can be broken back down to its basic building blocks and reformed into new fibre.
Up to £50 off your next purchase!
For maximum environmental benefit we need as many Páramo garments to be diverted from landfill as possible. That's why we're offering a reward for every old Páramo garment that we receive. If you return a garment labelled Nikwax Analogy, we'll give you a £50 discount on a new item worth more than £125 RRP. For any other Páramo garment you'll get a £10 discount on a new item worth more than £25 RRP. You can use your discount on Paramo websites or at our Covent Garden shop. but not with third party retailers. (See full terms and conditions below)
How to participate
Recycling your Páramo garment is easy. You can either send it in by post, or hand it in personally at one of our participating retailers including our own Páramo brand shops or bring along to a Páramo direct event.
By post...
Please print, complete and send this form with your garment to the address below. Once we receive your garment and completed form, our Customer Service team will send you a confirmation email containing your discount code.
Páramo Recycling Scheme,
Páramo Ltd,
Unit F, Durgates Industrial Estate,
Wadhurst, East Sussex,
TN5 6DF.
In person...
Drop your garment in at our Covent Garden shop, our Wadhurst Shop, at one of our participating retailers or alternatively you can bring it along to any Páramo direct event.
You'll be able to use your discount that very same day. Alternatively, the store staff can arrange for an online code to be sent to your email address for use at a later date.
6-7 Mary Butt
Berkshire, RG1 2LN
89 Lower Hill Gate
Cheshire, SK1 3AW
6 Town Hall Buildings
Surrey, GU9 7ND
33 Stirling Enterprise Park
Stirlingshire, FK7 7RP
Cheapside
North Yorkshire, BD24 9EW
1 Central Parade
East Sussex, TN5 6AL
Sir Alfred Jodrell Barn
Norfolk, NR25 7JP
c/o Trelawney Garden Centre
North Devon, EX31 4BW
11 Edgedale Road
South Yorkshire, S7 2BQ
43 High Street
Powys, LD3 7AP
28 High Street
Dorset, DT1 1HF
Ballater Road
Aberdeenshire, AB34 5HT
6 Market Place
Derbyshire, SK17 6EB
16-17 Long Bridge Street
Powys, SY18 6EE
5 Lake Road
Cumbria, LA22 0AD
133 South Street
PH2 8PA
49 Ilfracombe Gardens
Tyne & Wear, NE26 3LZ
29 Henrietta Street
WC2E 8NA
Sandale
Cumbria, CA16 6LN
36 Castle Street
Denbighshire, LL20 8RT
20 Castle Gates
Shropshire, SY1 2AD
Bryn Pair Villa
Gwynedd, LL24 0BB
1 / 3 Rydal Road
Cumbria, LA22 9AN
14/18 VICTORIA STREET
Dumfries, DG8 6BT
40 Main Road
Cumbria, LA23 1DY
32 Lake Road
Cumbria, LA23 3AP
Hanliff House
Somerset, BS27 3QA
Pletts Barn
North Yorkshire, BD23 5AT
38 Rosemary Street
Nottinghamshire, NG18 1QL
The White House Stables
Lancashire, BB7 9SN
Only garments made with genuine Nikwax Analogy or Páramo fabrics will be accepted into the recycling scheme. By entering a garment into the Páramo Recycling Scheme, the participant surrenders ownership of the garment to Páramo Ltd. In exchange, the participant will receive a discount on an immediate in-store purchase, or will receive an online voucher issued by Páramo HQ for use on the Páramo Hill & Mountain or Naturally Páramo websites. In either case, the discount will be awarded according to the following criteria:
In exchange for... |
Exclusions |
Páramo will award... |
Conditions for use of discount voucher |
Any garment made using genuine Nikwax Analogy fabrics, and not specifically listed for exclusion. |
Gaiters, waterproof caps, and of course any non-Analogy garments. |
A single use £50 discount applicable to items worth more than £125 RRP. |
Only one discount can be used at a time. The discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotional offers including multi-buys, points schemes etc. Online voucher codes will be valid for 12 months from the issue date. |
Any other genuine Páramo garment, not specifically listed for exclusion. This includes windproofs, Nikwax Fleece, Parameta base and mid-layer garments. |
Underwear (briefs, boxers, microshorts and long johns) cannot currently be accepted for health and safety reasons. |
A single use £10 discount, applicable to purchases worth more than £25 RRP. |
The in-store discount applies to purchases made at the Páramo Shop in Covent Garden, the Wadhurst Showroom, at Páramo direct events or at the participating retailer only with whom you left your garment to be recycled, and cannot currently be used with other third party retailers.
Online voucher codes are valid at hillandmountain.paramo.co.uk and naturallyparamo.co.uk only.
Páramo cannot take responsibility for any items lost in the post, and suggests that participants retain proof of postage.
