A New Standard In Sustainability

We strive to design our products with materials that can return safely back to nature and we will take back every Erem product at the end of its life. We call this standard Biocircular. We envision Biocircular becoming the norm for our industry and the world.

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Returns To Nature

We strive to design our products with materials that can return safely back to nature and we will take back every Erem product at the end of its life. We call this standard Biocircular. We envision Biocircular becoming the norm for our industry and the world.

Circular

Erem® will take back your used boots and offer you a credit towards your next Erem® purchase. Your old boots can be re-streamed into new boots over and over again.

Reboot and Reuse

We strive to design our products with materials that can return safely back to nature and we will take back every Erem product at the end of its life. We call this standard Biocircular. We envision Biocircular becoming the norm for our industry and the world.

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Carbon Neutral

To achieve CarbonNeutral® certification, Erem is working with the leading experts on carbon neutrality and climate finance, Natural Capital Partners.

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Protecting the Planet

Erem® is committed to donating 1% of our sales to protect our home planet.

3rd Party Verified

Erem® partners with expert 3rd parties to help us audit and verify that we are achieving each of the goals we set for ourselves.

Materials

You don’t buy food containing ingredients you can’t pronounce or that you don’t recognize. Why should your gear be any different? Erem® uses a small suite of versatile and trusted materials that meet our performance and environmental standards and we tell you what they are.

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Leather

Full-grain leather is a highly durable material that reduces impact by remaining useful longer in extreme conditions. Erem's leather is tanned with plant-based, food-grade formulations that are grown, harvested, and processed sustainably.

The Xerocole® collection uses reverse grain in order to utilize leather with aesthetic marks like tick bites or scratches that, while functionally perfect, would normally be discarded.

Erem has partnered with the Savory Institute to source our leather from regenerative farms that improve soil health and sequester carbon.

TENCEL™ Fiber

TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers come from sustainably managed forests. More than 99% of the harvested material meets FSC® and PEFC™ standards and comes from trees that don’t require pesticides, fertilizers or irrigation.

TENCEL™ has a closed-loop production process, meaning >99.5% of the used solvent is recycled and pushed back into the system instead of being flushed out as wastewater. No environmentally harmful substances are used to process wood into fiber. The resulting fiber is certified as compostable and biodegradable under industrial, home, soil and marine conditions.

Rubber

Xerocole collection soles contain 70% recycled rubber and a proprietary, added biodegradability accelerator that enables biodegradation in 7 years or less (results come from independent, 3rd party testing). By contrast, most shoes today use EVA and rubber that will take hundreds of years or more to degrade, if they ever do.

Reuse is the most sustainable option, so we work with a partner that can devulcanize our rubber soles, allowing them to be easily turned into new biodegradable rubber products, including new Erem gear.

Brass

Brass is an alloy made of zinc and copper. We use brass because of its desert-level durability and its ability to be infinitely recycled without losing its incredible performance properties. Most performance footwear hardware today uses plastic.

Cork

Cork is a highly sustainable, natural material, harvested from the cork oak which is native to the semi-desert environments of southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Cork trees are unharmed in commercial harvesting.

Even better, the raw material used in Erem’s insoles comes from the production waste of cork stoppers, disks, and other products. Our supplier transforms this cork “waste” into cork granules that can be used for shoe components. At the end of its life, cork will safely return to the Earth.

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