TREAD LIGHTLY

Exciting eco news to make your walking even greener...

☞ The greenest way to buy kit is second-hand and some top brands are now cleaning, repairing and reselling

pre-loved gear. Finisterre has a Reskinned shop (reskinned. clothing/finisterre); Vango

runs Camping Recycled (campingrecycled.co.uk);

the North Face Renewed store is live in North America and Germany and expanding; and some like

Patagonia’s Worn Wear (currently

US only) celebrate visible repairs

– say contrast-colour patches like this – so your kit can be both one of a kind and kind to the planet, and cost a lot less than brand new too.

☞ Nights are drawing in and if you need a new head torch, the Silva Terra Scout XT uses recycled plastic and a hemp headband to reduce the carbon footprint of its production by 90%. And it’s good – 350-lumen bright with a red night-vision mode, water resistant, and it can run for up to 70 hours on batteries or Silva’s rechargeable Hybrid unit. £40, silvasweden.uk