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 GEAR NEWS 11 / 02 / 08
 

Recycled Sleeping Bag From Marmot

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The outdoors industry is starting to embrace sustainable manufacture with real enthusiasm and coming soon is a new Marmot sleeping bag made from recycled plastic bottles and old fabric.

The new Marmot EcoPro 15 will be in the shops from later this month and uses high tech UpCycle materials. It's a three-season synthetic bag which uses 100 per-cent recycled fabrics for the shell and lining and 80 per-cent recycled insulation.

A wave design combines shingle and blanket construction to save weight and maximise efficiency and the synthetic UpCycle insulation and DWR treated fabric should make for reasonable performance in damp conditions.

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Other features include a snag-free zipper with baffle, a, erm, face muff, stash pocket for stashing small objects close to the hood and a trapezoidal footbox for maximum foot happiness. Weight is a claimed 1361 grammes or exactly 3lb.

The crucial point is that recycled materials are every bit as effective as brand new ones, so by voting for a greener option, you don't have to compromise the performance of your kit, something that Patagonia users have known for years.

The bag will be available for £110 from late February '08 at stockists including Cotswold, who told us about it in the first place and therefore get a plug.

More details of the Marmot range at www.marmot.com.


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Phil T 
Posted: 14/02/08 11:32:57 57
I looked at one of these when I was in REI in the USA recently, and it's nice, but as a synthetic it's not the most compressible of bags and you're left with a pretty big lump even under maximum stuff-age. But it is cosy, and cut quite wide at the shoulders in typial Marmot fashion.
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