Take-back of recyclable products
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Zyrofisher
Evoc Recycling
Roundhouse Road
Faverdale Industrial Estate
DL3 0UR Darlington
Great Britain
Chris Sports AG
Evoc Recycling
Wittenwilerstrasse 12
8355 Aadorf
Schweiz
Vertical Playground AS
Evoc Recycling
Ola Setroms Veg 17
7340 Oppdal
Norway
Effective PET-recycling thanks to revolTEX®
The revolTEX® technology makes it possible to recycle the products of the EVOC PROTECTOR LITE series to virgin-quality PET. This enables reuse of 97% of the original material. “Virgin quality“ means that the recycled PET displays the same properties and offers the same application options as the original fossile raw material.
The original qualities remain in tact and down cycling coupled with a deterioration of quality can be avoided. Within the technical cycle, the material components can be made available to the identical textile application according to the cradle-to-cradle philosophy. The required energy in this process is even lower than the energy required for the original production of conventionally produced PET.
The collaboration with RITTEC for chemical recycling in our PROTECTION WEAR is one of our first steps towards a real reuse cycle and will be successively extended in order to enable the next steps in this direction as soon as possible.
COFFEE AND RECYCLING
Plastic dominates the modern world - especially the world of sports. It is incorporated in almost all types of clothing, many items of equipment and of course also in our backpacks and bags. Aside from Nylon, polyester plays a key role. Polyester is a chemical fibre made of polyethylene terephthalate, more commonly referred to as PET.
In theory polyester is straightforward to recycle - when it is homogenous and without intermixtures. In reality, however, polyester fibers pose a considerable challenge in textile recycling. The use of colours and/or intermixtures with other types of fibre or chemicals aimed at improving product properties such as feel or UV protection contaminate the fibres. This leads to the fact that only around 1% of polyester fabrics are recycled for further textile usage; 12 % go into lower-grade applications like filling or insulating materials. By far the largest proportion (87%) ends up in landfills, is burned or eventually finds its uncontrollable way into the environment.
These high amounts of waste could theoretically be brought back (re-) into the cycle by means of “real“ recycling. There is a distinction between mechanical and chemical recycling.
Mechanical recycling conventionally means that plastic waste is washed, shredded and molten enabling it to be converted into granulate. The mechanical recycling process, however, only offers limited reuse for plastics, as the quality of the materials deteriorates during the recycling treatment.
In chemical recycling, polymer chains of the plastics are broken down into molecules which can then be reused as raw materials. These raw materials enable the manufacturing of products at the same quality level as when using new fossile raw materials. This treatment, therefore, creates a real cycle within which the same products can be recreated out of their own (secondary raw) materials.
In collaboration with RITTEC, the company that we consider to have developed the leading technology for chemical PET recycling with revolTEX®, we plan to gradually close the cycle. This is already possible for selected products from the EVOC PROTECTION WEAR range.
