REI

Supply Chain Disclosure

REI requires private label suppliers of articles to maintain a Chemical Inventory List that includes all processing chemicals present on-site at factories, updated at least once every three months. At minimum, the Chemical Inventory List should include the following for each chemical kept on site: chemical name, chemical supplier, primary use, chemical ingredients, quantity on site, and bluesign certification number, if applicable.

Supplier Accountability

REI expects all REI Co-op Brand and Co-op Cycle suppliers to comply with its RSL for its finished products and requires testing. In addition, REI partnered with the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and other brands to create the Chemicals Management Guide & Training for Manufacturers, a resource that supports development of policies, strategies, and processes for effectively managing chemistry throughout manufacturing.

Restricted Substances List (RSL)/Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL)

REI’s RSL restricts BPA in food contact products, some flame retardants in camping shelters, long-chain PFAS in apparel, footware, backpacks, tents and sleeping bags, and PFAS in ski wax, textile treatments, and cookware. REI restricts other chemicals in alignment with bluesign® standards for products and packaging.

Reduction/Elimination Goals

REI has a goal to restrict PFAS in all cookware, apparel, accessories, footwear, packs and bags, by fall 2024 and to restrict PFAS in all other textiles by fall 2026.

Chemicals and Plastics Reduction

REI has made progress implementing its restriction on PFAS in textiles by bringing to market private-label products with DWR treatments that are non fluorinated.

REI has also made progress introducing tents without toxic flame retardants in recent years. The REI Co-op Arete ASL 2 was the first REI Co-op tent to transition to completely flame retardant-free in the fall of 2020. Since then, the company has been working to transition other REI Co-op tents completely away from flame retardants.

Implementation of Safer Solutions

REI has redesigned its private-label tents to meet new flammability standards. Since it is feasible to meet these requirements without the use of flame-retardant chemicals, adopting the new standards will support REI’s transition away from the use of flame retardants in its REI brand tents

REI sells Nikwax waterproofing treatment, which has been identified by Washington Department of Ecology as a safer alternative for textiles treatment.