Innovating Sustainably

We have a responsibility to ensure that all athletes* can train, live and thrive for generations to come. We develop products with sustainability in mind and innovate new materials because we’re dedicated to finding ways to help solve today’s problems for a better tomorrow. Nike's collaboration with Steven Harrington to create the Flyleather Earth Day Pack, made with at least 50% recycled leather fiber, is a testament to just that.

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Our Focus

We are always innovating. Not only what we make, but how we make it. Pushing the limits of our business is how we come up with new ways to solve today's problems. We’re focused on sustainable innovation across our value chain.

Materials Innovation

Sustainable Products

Product Creation Tools

Guiding the Future of Design

It’s a simple question with a complex answer: how can our product be recycled at the end of use? We understand that limited resources demand a transition to a circular economy, a world in which materials can be used and reused at their highest potential—and that’s why we created a Circular Design Guide.

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Materials Innovation

Nike’s history of innovation came with some amazing feats of forward thinking. New innovation and methods are changing the world of sustainable performance.

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Nike, Converse and Jordan Brand Discuss the Future of Sustainable Design and Innovation

Meet the creative minds driving NIKE, Inc.'s Move to Zero and other sustainable initiatives forward.

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Sustainability on the Pitch

Since 2010, all of Nike’s football kits have been made from recycled water bottles, helping us divert more than 7.5 billion plastic bottles from landfills.

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Air Sole Innovation

There are few innovations more iconic to Nike than Air. It’s a technology we’ve continued to improve with better looks, better performance, and being better for the planet.

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Our Approach to Sustainable Products

We obsess over what goes into our products so you can feel great putting them on. This means looking at how each material is grown, harvested, and processed.

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Nike's Space Hippie: Creating Our Lowest Carbon Footprint Shoe Ever

Exploring new paths to creating more sustainable shoes, the Space Hippie series transforms scrap material from factory floors into a radical expression of circular design.

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5 Ways the Nike Air VaporMax 2020 Flyknit Celebrates Circular Design

The Nike Air VaporMax 2020 Flyknit is one of Nike’s most sustainable shoes to date, made with at least 50 percent recycled content by weight.

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Goals & Impact

We’ve set ambitious targets and measure our progress as we go.

Learn more about our progress in our FY19 Impact Report

Fewer liters of freshwater used by material vendors since FY16

7.5

Plastic bottles diverted from landfills and waterways and transformed into recycled polyester footwear and apparel since 2010

of Nike footwear and apparel styles included some recycled materials

Product Creation Tools

We use more than 16,000 materials in our products each year, and a single pair of shoes may contain up to 30 materials. We use product and materials scoring tools and indices that give our product creation teams the information they need to make better decisions about the materials they use and the processes they adopt.

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