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Downlite directs its 1% to The Conservation Alliance

11/07/2018
Performance insulation developer Downlite has confirmed that 1% of sales in the last fiscal year of its Recharged materials and of its direct-to-consumer bedding products has gone as a donation to grassroots environmental campaign group The Conservation Alliance. Recarged is performance down made from 100% recycled material and is suitable for use in outerwear or in sleeping bags.

Downlite said The Conservation Alliance will use the money in its efforts to protect North America’s last wild spaces and the down supplier will have the opportunity to nominate projects it .
Particularly likes. The move comes following Downlite’s decision in 2017 to join the 1% For The Planet movement; it has chosen to direct its 1% to The Conservation Alliance.

“Support for our public lands, which so many of us take such pleasure from, has never been more important,” said Josh Werthaiser, Downlite chief executive at the time of the announcement.

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