Recycled plastic beads

We’ve partnered with organizations like Bureo and Plastiq, which are focused on converting discarded and potentially ocean-bound plastics into useable material. It’s a multi-stage process that begins with capturing end-of-life plastics and ends with creating plastic pellets that can be injection-molded into products like our Bat Cage and the cores of Bontrager XR Trail Grips.

The process

Our partners capture end-of-life and potentially ocean-bound plastics like discarded fishing nets, ropes, and other rigid plastics. That reclaimed content is cut down and converted into small plastic beads, which can then be heated and injection-molded into products you use every day on your bike.

Recycled textiles

We recycle pre-consumer scrap textiles from the manufacturing and cutting process into material used in Trek shorts. Plus, Trek jerseys contain fabric made from discarded water bottles, which are converted into plastic pellets and woven into yarns.

Trek jerseys contain material made from recycled water bottles*

*Based on an average 16.9 fl. oz. PET water bottle

Recycled rubber

We also reprocess scrap rubber—including early- and late-run tubes and those that fail to meet our testing standard—into recycled rubber, which is mixed with virgin material and accounts for 5–8% of our standard tubes by volume.