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    • We're in business to build a more sustainable world by bringing environmental science into your life in creative ways.

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    • Waterlust is the best!

      Great products, great customer service, great mission! Worth every penny.

      - Michelle Rumbaut, TX

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We're in business to build a more sustainable world by bringing environmental science into your life in creative ways.

B Corporation Certified Logo

Waterlust is the best!

Great products, great customer service, great mission! Worth every penny.

- Michelle Rumbaut, TX

Buy a take-back bag

It’s $10, and we cover the shipping both ways.

Say Goodbye

Fill the bag with your old Waterlust gear and mail it back to us with the included pre-paid shipping label.

Get credit back

We'll email you a gift card for $20 to Waterlust.com.

Recycle

Your old gear will be turned into brand new gear, specifically our Black Circularity Collection.

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Take-Back Bag

  • According to the EPA, 87% of apparel textiles are not recycled annually in the United States, meaning millions of tons of old clothes are piled into landfills every year. While recycling infrastructure exists for things like plastic bottles and aluminum cans, textile recycling is far less developed and accessible.

    This program is designed to help fix that! Join us in taking responsibility for the end of life of your garments, and send back your old Waterlust gear to be recycled into new Waterlust gear!

    We accept all Waterlust items except tees, tanks, hats, and bottles. Everything else we make can be recycled using this program.

  • Since you’re sending these back, you'll be receiving a reusable mailer bag made from 100% post-consumer recycled bottles. That way, we’re not creating more waste.

    Dimensions: 12 inches x 15 inches. Fits up to approximately 4-5 larger Waterlust garments.

    We pay for shipping and will send out your bag within 1-2 business days.

  • Currently, this is only available to US addresses.

    We can take back all Watelust swim and activewear - everything we make except for bottles, hats, tees, and tanks.

What happens to your old Waterlust clothing?

We remove all the trims (zippers, buttons), shred the fabric, combine it with recycled bottle flake (to keep material quality high), melt everything down, extrude it into fibers, and then knit the fibers into new fabric.

Along the way, black dye is added (using an efficient process that uses no water) to standardize the resulting color that comes out.

This special black fabric is then cut and sewn into brand new products in our Black Circularity Collection.

Circularity magic!

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Ani Ostendorff
Yay Takeback Bags!

I love being able to recycle my gear and contribute to more sustainable in-water work wear!

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Karen (Virginia Beach, VA, US)

Great way to recycle

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