Our favorite gloves, West County Garden Gloves are now made from recycled materials!  Read our prior blog: Garden Glove Review: West County Garden Gloves, simply the best gloves I have tried.  

On our farm, Stargazer Perennials, we live in West County Garden Gloves 12 months a year! The comfortable and breathable work gloves are perfect during the summer and in the winter we wouldn't be without our insulated waterproof West County Gardener Gloves. Each work glove, landscape glove or gardening glove will now be made with a fabric that comes from recycled water bottles. The new recycled fabric is stronger, softer, and easier on the planet.

Limited natural resources create opportunities for innovation. It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. Nothing could be more true when describing the new recycled PET mesh fabric used in West County Gloves.  Nearly 2 years later, West County Gardener now has the first recycled content gloves in the United States.

Browse all West County Gardener Gloves:

• Womens West County Work Gloves
• Womens West County Classic Gloves
• Womens West County Waterproof Gloves
• Mens West County Work Gloves
• Mens West County Waterproof Gloves
• Rose Gauntlet Gloves

Turning Water Bottles into Fabric for West County Gardener Gloves:

1. To convert recycled plastic, first the bottles are gathered, sorted by color, crushed, and baled.
2. Next, they are shipped to a facility to be ground into 1/8” shards.
3. The shards are then cleaned and sanitized before melting and extruding and chopping into uniform PET pellets.
4. The pellets are then melted and put into a spinneret to produce a fine yarn that is blended with virgin poly and knit into West County fabric.

View our complete line of West County Gardener Gloves available in Men's Gloves and Women's Glove sizes.