Waterless Dyeing
Nike has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile dyeing machines.
Product creation teams use the Nike Materials Index
(Nike MSI) to select environmentally better materials.
Each material's impacts are assessed in four areas:
Material Choices and their impact on the environment.
Recycled polyester textiles, which can be made from used beverage bottles, have lower energy use, raw materials extraction and waste compared to virgin polyester fiber.
During FY10, NIKE used 15 million lbs. of organic cotton, which equates to diverting over 3 million lbs. of chemicals that would otherwise be used during the production of traditional cotton.In FY11, we doubled our use of recycled polyester in apparel compared to FY10, the equivalent of removing more than 280 million plastic bottles from the waste stream.Ethylene vinyl acetate (also known as EVA) is the copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate that can be manufactured into a foam material.Over the last 15 years Nike has performed research on rubber formulations that have a lower environmental impact, targeting the most harmful toxics. As a result, Nike now has two preferred rubber base formulations. In FY11, 80% of NIKE Brand footwear designs used environmentally preferred rubber.
Nike has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile dyeing machines.
Nine top NCAA basketball teams wear specially designed uniforms made from recycled polyester.
With new Nike Flyknit technology, yarns and fabric variations are precisely engineered only where they are needed for a featherweight, formfitting and virtually seamless upper.