Worn or broken products:
what if you could change how the story ends?

We believe that the repair of a product should be integrated from the very beginning of the design process, just as much as its technical properties.
For example, at the start of a product project, our engineers analyse similar old, worn and defective models to determine the main areas of failure that cannot be improved in strength.

Based on these findings, the design teams create this product by already integrating accessible and easy-to-implement repair solutions. This sometimes involves developing ranges of spare parts in parallel with product development.
Our performance indicator: the rate of repairable products, which corresponds to the share of repairable products in our total active range.

Optimising the life of products is a collective responsibility where designers and trekkers have a role to play. This requires you to change your habits and adopt good reflexes to avoid wasting the raw materials that make up your equipment. But it is not always easy to know how to do this.

The mission of our communication teams is to help trekkers around the world to maintain, repair and recycle their equipment.
Our performance indicator: the repair rate, which corresponds to the share of repaired products in the total number of repairable products returned under warranty.

When it comes to the circular economy, the question of the end of life of products is inevitable.
We are aware that the recyclability of products is an important issue and we take this into account in the development of our products, in which we use materials from recycling sectors.

That said, we want to focus our efforts where we believe the impact reduction is most significant,  based on the results of the product life cycle analysis.
This is why we have chosen to focus on the sustainability of our products before their recyclability. After all, we don't produce to throw away and it is by working again and again on sustainability that our products will have many lives before they are thrown away. To arrive at recycling would be a failure in itself: this would mean that our product would not be strong enough or repairable.

The recycling of our products is one of the most difficult steps for us: it is a question of knowing how to collect products at the end of their life, but also of finding the recycling sectors available for the treatment of sometimes complex and often multi-material technical products.
However, we are not putting this issue to one side and recycling initiatives continue to be developed within the Decathlon Group. For example, where possible, we try to design textiles using only one material, as this makes them more easily recyclable.