ocean impact
Every Escapes chair starts as 19 plastic bottles that were otherwise headed to the ocean. The fabric is recycled ocean bound plastic. Same with the towel. Same with the umbrella canopy. The story is short, and it is true.
ocean bound plastic
what we believe
We do not lead with the eco angle. It is still true.
The chair is the chair you would want anyway. It just costs the ocean less to make. This page is the work behind that line: the chain the bottles take, the partnership we run them through, the numbers we can prove, and the claims we will not make.
the chain
It is not magic and it is not complicated. It is just specific.
01 / source
Bottles collected within the coastlines, what would otherwise wash in.
The bottles we use are collected by partner networks in coastal communities before they reach the water. "Ocean bound" means within the coastline, in waste systems that leak. This is the standard definition the OBP Certification Group uses, not one we invented.
02 / collection
Each batch is weighed at the collection point. The weight gets a record.
The partnership tracks the weight at every step, which is how we can put a real bottle count on the chair. It is not an estimate, it is a calculation: 19 bottles per chair worth of fabric, by weight, traced.
03 / flake
The bottle becomes flake, small fragments, sorted clean.
The bottles get shredded into PET flake, washed to remove labels and adhesives, and sorted by color. Clear flake makes the cleanest fiber. The sorting matters: it is why our fabric does not go gray after a season the way some recycled fabrics do.
04 / fiber
Flake becomes filament. Filament becomes yarn.
The flake is melted and extruded through spinnerets into continuous filament, the same physical process used for virgin polyester, just starting from the bottles instead of from petroleum. The yarn this produces is the same rPET fiber you would find in a Patagonia fleece or a Yeti bag. It is a known, tested, durable material.
05 / fabric
The texture, up close. This is what 19 bottles look like, rewoven.
The yarn is woven into the seat fabric, the towel fabric, and the umbrella canopy. It is tested for UV resistance, salt spray, and wear. The chair you sit in is the chair you would want anyway. It is just made of a material that started somewhere honest.
the numbers
We update these when the numbers update. Last revised June 2026.
19
bottles per chair, by certified weight
57
bottles per full kit (chair + towel + umbrella)
100%
of seat fabric, towel, and canopy made from recycled ocean bound plastic
6061
aluminum frame, fully recyclable at end of life
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certified beechwood armrests, replanted source
0
offsets purchased. we don't count what we didn't reduce.
Bottle counts are calculated from the certified weight of recycled ocean bound plastic in each product, divided by an average 25g per single-use PET bottle. The partnership and the certification details are below.
the partnership
Our fabric supplier sources certified recycled ocean bound plastic from collection partners working in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and coastal India. The certification we rely on is the OBP Certification Group standard, the same one used by Patagonia, Adidas, and a long list of other brands that take this seriously. We did not write the certification, and we do not audit it ourselves. We rely on a third party that does.
"Ocean bound" is plastic within 50 km of a coastline, in informal waste systems that do not catch it. If you do not collect it, the ocean does.
OBP Certification Group, definition
what we won't say
Because the eco vocabulary is full of words that do not mean what they sound like. We would rather say less and have it be true.
"Carbon neutral"
We don't buy offsets. We don't count what we didn't reduce. If a chair has a footprint, we would rather say so than mask it.
"Plastic-free"
The fabric is recycled plastic. That is better than virgin plastic, but it is not plastic-free. We say what it is.
"Cleans the ocean"
It doesn't. The bottles are intercepted before they reach the water. That is prevention, not cleanup, and prevention is what the partnership actually does.
"Compostable" or "biodegradable"
It is recycled PET. It will outlast you. We would rather it stay out of the landfill via the recycling chain than break down into microplastics in a backyard pile.
"100% sustainable"
No physical object is. We are a consumer goods company. The chair has a footprint. We work to make that footprint smaller and we are specific about how.
the line we use everywhere
it's the same chair you'd want anyway. it just costs the ocean less to make.
If you want to read about the design choices behind that chair, the brand story page goes there. If you want to see the kit, it is three products built on this same material.
