{Dover, NH—October 30, 2024} — NEMO’s fully recyclable Endless Promise® collection has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2024 Best Inventions. The backpacking sleeping bags and technical backpacks join the highly coveted list of 200 extraordinary innovations in categories including health care, AI, green energy, and the outdoors, where NEMO was honored. Contenders were evaluated through an extensive list of criteria including originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.
Endless Promise Collection®
The Endless Promise Collection represents NEMO’s commitment to reduce resource consumption and keep gear out of the landfill. All Endless Promise products are painstakingly designed to be repairable, resellable, and most importantly, 100% recyclable. In addition to the intensive design work required, NEMO has also put in place key partnerships and infrastructure to make the take-back and recycling process easy for the customer. When a product has reached its end, it can be sent back to NEMO and the company will handle the rest.
“Complexity is the enemy of recycling,” said Jeff Wilser, one of TIME’s independent testers. “When products are made from multiple materials⏤plastic, nylon, cotton⏤it’s costly to separate and reuse them…This is why NEMO Equipment created a technical backpack that’s made almost entirely from one material, polyester, which is fully recyclable. Each pack⏤along with a line of sleeping bags⏤comes with prepaid shipping and a QR code containing instructions for getting it repaired, resold or recycled.”
NEMO debuted its Endless Promise Collection in 2023 with the best-selling Forte™ Endless Promise® synthetic Spoon® shape sleeping bag. As of 2024, NEMO’s Endless Promise Collection includes its entire line of synthetic and down insulated backpacking sleeping bags, as well as the recently launched Vantage and Resolve backpacks. Prioritizing innovative, low-impact materials and repairable, fully recyclable designs, the Endless Promise collection will continue to expand in 2025.
NEMO’s U.S. recycling partners include Unifi, Ambercycle (whose Cycora recycled fabric used in NEMO’s Endless Promise backpacks was also named to TIME’s 2024 Best Inventions), and ALLIED Feather + Down. After removing, cleaning, and reviving the down from Endless Promise bags, ALLIED will incorporate the insulation into its RENU:TRACE, offering the world’s first fully traceable recycled down. NEMO is also continuing to expand its repair and recycling services throughout its distribution areas and is currently partnering with United Repair Centre, CuRe Technology, and ALLIED in Europe.
This is the seventh award that NEMO’s Endless Promise collection has earned. Previous accolades include:
- ISPO Award – Resolve™ Endless Promise® Technical Daypack
- Fast Company’s Innovation by Design 2023 Honoree – Forte™ Endless Promise® Sleeping Bag
- Green GOOD DESIGN® – Endless Promise® down sleeping bag collection
- Men’s Journal Travel Awards, Best Travel Backpack – Vantage™ Endless Promise® Daypack
- Popular Science Best of What’s New 2023 – entire Endless Promise® Collection
- Gear Junkie Best Budget Suitcase – Vantage™ 30L Endless Promise® Daypack
NEMO’s award can be seen here, and the full list can be found at time.com/best-inventions-2024.
About NEMO
NEMO is a New Hampshire-based outdoor gear company known for creating award-winning products that are built to last, comfortable, and fun to use. The brand has been named Outdoor Brand of the Year by The Daily by Outdoor Retailer, and one of Outside Magazine’s and Business New Hampshire’s Best Places to Work. NEMO has also been recognized as a small business leader for the environment by New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility. NEMO’s reputation for design innovation across its product lines—tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, camp accessories, and furniture—is an outgrowth of its design philosophy to never bring anything to market that doesn’t offer a meaningfully better experience. NEMO’s team of designers and engineers are motivated by a passion for outdoor adventure and sustainability.
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