A product's environmental impact is calculated over its entire life cycle using various indicators.
A score from A to E is produced to help you make a responsible choice.
This rating is used to easily identify the products with the best environmental performance.
This is done by making a comparison between products of the same family (e.g. backpacks).
Decathlon is a voluntary supporter of this environmentally-friendly labelling approach.

Our Quechua global design centre is based in Passy, at the foot of Mont-Blanc in Haute Savoie.
This location makes it a real meeting place for our teams (designers, product managers, engineers, etc) and outdoor sports enthusiasts.
A great asset for designing your mountain walking products and providing you with all our expertise.

These shorts have an athletic, fitted cut. The two-way stretch fabric (width and length) maintains perfect freedom of movement. Mid-thigh length. Choose your usual size.

The fabric's ability to wick away perspiration and keep you dry is measured according to several criteria: the absorbency of the fabric, the ability of the fabric not to saturate with sweat, speed of drying, etc. Level 1/5 is suitable for activities of low intensity or not generating a lot of sweat. All our hiking shorts have a performance of 3/5.

Textile dyeing requires a lot of water but also produces waste water from the dye baths. To reduce our impact on the environment, we opted for a bulk dyeing or "dope-dyed" method for the black colour model. This method incorporates the dye pigments from the yarn manufacturing process onwards, and consumes less water.
The black MH500 shorts use this new dyeing process, which we want to replicate with other colours in the near future.