We make garbage. Sooner or later all manufactured goods become garbage. We'd like to think that our sandals last forever, but they don't. Until they do, we focus on using durable materials and engineering them so they can be re-soled and re-webbed. That way, long before a pair of Chaco sandals becomes garbage, they've been around the block a time or two. The longer it takes a Chaco product to get to the landfill, the happier we are and the healthier our world is.