UPPAREL is an Australian textile recovery and recycling company with a mission to prevent textiles from ending up in landfills while actively pursuing circular solutions for textile waste.

Across sixteen stores in Australia, you’ll find designated bins that you can fill with old, used, or faulty Kathmandu gear.

UPPAREL then take these items and they are either reused or recycled instead of going into a landfill.

This program aligns with Kathmandu’s circular business model pillar and our goals towards circularity. UPPAREL provides us with a great way to extend our product lifecycles and keep them out of landfill.

More tactically:

• To support UPPAREL's efforts in diverting textile waste from landfill.
• To continue reducing our impact on textile waste ending in landfill.
• To extend the lifetime of the products we make

• Collection: UPPAREL collects the bins, and items contributed, and delivers them to an UPPAREL facility in Melbourne. 
• Sorting: UPPAREL sorts through each box individually and determines, based on each item’s condition, what is fit for reuse or suitable for recycling. 
• Re-use: Any items fit for reuse are re-distributed to ImpacTex’s charity partners across New Zealand.
• Recycle: In the instance items can’t be donated, it will be given a new life through recycling. Textiles will be shredded down into fibre and made into new materials or repurposed into new products, like furniture cushioning, protective packaging, and pillow filling. 

• Botany
• Newmarket
• Queen Street
• Sylvia Park
• Waitakere
• Te Rapa
• Tauranga CBD
• Tauranga Crossing