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Treading More Lightly
Wherever you go, Crocs clogs are designed for comfort. But we’re also designing them for a lighter footprint on the planet. From materials to packaging to recycling, we’re innovating to use more circular processes and reduce the impacts of your favourite clogs.
Our Shoe Of The Future
We are pioneering the use of bio-based, bio-circular materials to transform plant-based waste into shoes that have all the comfort you expect from Crocs. In 2025, we achieved 25% bio-circular materials within our Classic Clogs.* 100% of the bio-circular material sourced for our use in our Classic Clog is certified as ISCC PLUS (mass balance approach). We are continuing to evaluate how bio-circular and other alternative materials can help lower the carbon footprint of our most iconic style (see more below)!
*We source repurposed bio-based waste from other industries to produce bio-circular materials. In 2025, Classic Clogs contained at least 25% bio-circular content, calculated on an annual average (January 2025 - December 2025) using a mass balance approach as certified by ISCC PLUS.
An Even Lower Footprint
Our simple approach to design, materials, and manufacturing meant that our Classic Clog already had a low carbon footprint.* Today, we're driving it down even further. Our most recent product carbon footprint established that a pair of Classic Clogs has a carbon footprint of 1.92kgCO2e. By increasing the amount of bio-circular content in our Croslite™ compounds, we have reduced the Classic Clog’s carbon footprint by 10% compared to our 2021 baseline.
By 2030, we will reduce the carbon footprint of our Classic Clog by 50%.
*According to a study conducted by MIT researchers, the average carbon footprint of a pair of shoes is 30lbs CO2e, or 14kg CO2e. In 2021, we used the Higg Product Module 1.0 to calculate the carbon footprint of a pair of Classic Clogs at 2.56kg CO2e using the most conservative material emissions factors at the time. These calculations used industry recognized sample sizes, were conducted internally and represent a cradle-to-grave impact.
** A third-party Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) was conducted by an environmental consultancy with primary data from fiscal year 2024, including 25% bio-circular content in our Croslite™ compounds on a mass balance basis. Bio-circular Croslite™ material has a lower carbon footprint than standard fossil fuel-based Croslite™ material, as demonstrated by our lower carbon footprint than standard fossil fuel-based Croslite™ material, shown in our SGS-certified product carbon footprint.
Packaging Light, Packaging Right
We ship to our fans all over the world and are making strides to reduce our environmental impact. The majority of our shoes are packaged in a product polybag, which has an 85% lower carbon footprint than a shoe box.* In 2023, we took steps to reduce our reliance on virgin materials and transition our primary polybag to 100% recycled content, which customers will begin to see in late 2024!
*This comparative metric was made against a shoebox containing 85% recycled cardboard, 15% market mix cardboard, and weighing 180 grams and calculated using the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI at higg.org) V3.7 developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, a cradle-to-gate material assessment tool that calculates environmental impacts of materials. The calculation was completed in 2024 by Crocs, Inc. and is not verified by a third party.
**Our LDPE product polybags are made from 100% post-industrial recycled content.
To find out more about how we’re creating Comfort for The Planet, visit our annual Comfort Report here.
