The circular economy aims to improve the use of resources throughout a product’s life cycle in order to reduce its impact on the environment
Every day we strive to move towards a circular economy model by integrating the use and end of life of our products from the very beginning of their design to increase their life span(s) and optimise their disassembly or recycling.
Through our Innovation Lab, dedicated to researching industrial solutions for the repair, refurbishment, and recycling of shoes for our brands, we have partnered with the BALI Chair and CETIA in the industrialization project of circularity named Reshoes. Conceived and created in September 2023 alongside partners such as Decathlon France, Salomon, and Refashion, Reshoes is an automated line based in Hendaye (64) that dismantles shoes (separating the upper from the sole) and detects materials to direct the different components towards recycling.
Reshoes contributes to accelerating our transition towards circularity in the footwear industry. This initiative allows us to identify dismantling criteria to integrate into our eco-design tools and promote product decarbonization while stabilizing their prices. The goal? To achieve the dismantling of a thousand shoes per day through automation!
Thanks to a mending and reconditioning process offered by La Manufacture, Sessile shoes can be repaired to extend their lifespan.
If the sneakers are too damaged to be repaired, then the different materials will be recycled and reused.
Tbs has launched “Resource ”, a shoe made only from recycled materials (70% recycled rubber, 20% natural rubber and 10% synthetic rubber). This vegan and recycled trainer is infinitely recyclable without sorting or dismantling. A real revolution in the responsible footwear market.
Resource is a winner of the Trophées de la Mode Circulaire
The Montlimart teams believe that to limit the impact of fashion on the planet, they need to include recycled materials in their collection because they need fewer resources to be produced and are a way to repurpose waste from the textile industry.
Jumpers, shirts, sweatshirts, T-shirts or polo shirts, the brand is constantly expanding its range of products made from recycled materials.
