Our magazine Sustainability

10 essential questions about the circular economy: definition, benefits, challenges and solutions to understand a more sustainable model.

Upcycling, the art of recycling used materials: a way of giving a new life to what could have become waste.

What does DECATHLON have to do with biodiversity?

Shoes are complicated to valorise and largely forgotten for a long time compared to textile recycling. But things are starting to change, and techniques are being honed to give our old pair of trainers the new lease of life they deserve.

Sustainable mobility, which proposes to reinvent the way we get around, is one of the major undertakings of transitioning to sustainability.

Even though they cover short distances, last-mile deliveries represent a significant share of transport emissions.

‘Decarbonising industry’ involves reducing the carbon impact of our sector. There are several crucial steps that we’ll need to take to achieve it.

Carbon has become the symbol of the fight for the environment. However, in light of this challenge, there are many others, often much less highlighted...

Let's dive into the world of RFID and discover how it revolutionises product traceability, transforming the shopping experience to make it smoother.

Recycled T-shirt: a myth or reality? Let's go behind the scenes of textile recycling to find out if your T-shirt can actually be transformed.

How (and why) can the circular economy change the way we produce and consume?

Or how to encourage a longer life for our products.

At DECATHLON, the path to repairability scoring started in 2020. Why? How do you do it? What methodology? Explanations

Climate change is disrupting life on earth. The climate and biodiversity are very closely connected to each other. Read all about it here!

Spoiler: if your big toe pokes a hole through your sock or your tyre punctures within the first few kilometres, they are not durable products.

What is a carbon footprint? What impact do we have on it? And it on us? We will focus on its link with greenhouse gases, the climate and how we calculate it.

A World Economic Forum study estimates that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

How many kilometres has that nice t-shirt you just bought travelled: 100? 1,000? 10,000? Focus on the journey of our clothes.

It's a fact the textile industry faces with a major challenge: reducing its environmental impact. And cotton growing in particular!

We can’t escape the fact that clothes are difficult to recycle. But recent developments could help us to build a better future for our textiles.

Or when scrap metals are not considered as waste but as precious resources to be recovered.

From large scale fibre recovery to post-consumer recycling efforts, how we can develop and optimise the process?

Why publish a CSR report? How is a sustainable development report produced? How is DECATHLON working on the subject?

Reduce waste, energy saving, new way of designing,…, How does recycled polyester force us to rethink design phases?