product description

Osprey is always engaged in the making of their backpacks — from initial concept through design, development, production and beyond. It strives to understand the impact of its products and its way of doing business on people, the economy, and the environment.

The company is directly involved and physically present through all these phases of development, including the production in Asia. Osprey maintains a full-time design and development office in Vietnam, where officials can directly monitor factories for compliance with fair labour practices and work with them to develop systems that are more socially and environmentally sustainable.

Osprey’s products are designed to be light, use minimal materials and withstand their lifetime warranty. The company field tests during development and uses the most durable materials.
The Atmos Resource 50 backpack presents an ideal opportunity to show that ‘greener materials’ can be used with no reduction in performance.

Among the Atmos Resource 50’s benefits: it is lighter weight, using fewer raw materials to leave a smaller carbon footprint; it has better ventilation as there is no foam padding against your back, better support from superior conformation to the shape of the user’s back (the 3D-tension mesh system is able to maintain structural integrity, as opposed to foam, which deforms under load). The packs are made with nearly 80% recycled PET, recyclable PLA buckles and reground plastic hardware.