Personal Advancement & Career Enhancement Program
(P.A.C.E.): P.A.C.E. is Gap Inc.'s educational program that helps the women
who make our clothes build the skills, knowledge, confidence, and resilience needed to
advance in work and life. Learn more at gap.com/pace. We continue to share our program
curriculum with other retailers via Empower@work.
WASTE
Circularity: Materials are valuable, and
one of the best things we can do is keep those materials in use for as long as possible and
help ensure they never become waste. Joining the circular economy means shifting our
thinking about design, how we wear and care for products, and where products eventually go,
so that they can get reused and recycled. To do so, we are building programs to address
product end of life and create circular design systems that reduce waste and increase
recycling, upcycling, and reuse.
ReGap: ReGap is our way of saying, "Share
the good." We obsess over every stitch and detail, so each Gap piece has the quality to hold
up — and pass along. From big kid to little kid, mom to daughter, friend to friend.
Single Use Plastic: We set a goal to
eliminate single-use plastics in our operations by 2030. We aim to achieve this goal through
a combination of methods — eliminating packaging where possible, reducing thickness to
reduce the overall amount of plastic used, converting to recycled plastic and/or
biodegradable materials where possible.
Upcycling:When materials are re-used in a
way that adds value to the product, we call that upcycling. The opposite of upcycling is
downcycling — still a form of recycling, but one where the new product has less value than
the original.