Atlantis Headwear Sustainability Series 2024

Recycledpolyester Polyester is an important fiber in our collections and one of the most widely used in the world: strong, durable and crease-resistant, it allows us to make lightweight headwear that dry quickly. But its production comes at an environmental cost: it’s a synthetic fiber derived from oil with a lower environmental impact than the production of natural fibers in terms of water and land1 but, the energy required to produce polyester makes it a very high-impact process 2 . This is why Atlantis wants to encourage the use of recycled polyester instead of virgin fossil-based one. Its alter-ego, recycled polyester, or rPET, is made from polymers obtained by melting used plastic bottles and transforming them into textile fiber. Did you know that every minute, nearly 1 million plastic bottles are purchased around the world?3