Circulary

Reda, an Italian wool fabric company produces active “Padding”; a non-woven fabric created using post-industrial textile waste (by-products) coming from production cycle. This fabric is highly resistant and capable of decomposing over time.

Reda also produces a flannel, by recycling by-products that are re-carded and transformed into a new yarn used for the creation of the fabric.

It can be used for insulation, jackets filling, ski boots, ski helmets and others.

• Recycling of by-products
• Reduction of textile disposal waste and emissions
• In comparison with another flannel (not recycled) of the same line: the fabric contains 40% of recycled yarn (made using by-products)

• Lack of regulation specifying criteria for waste/by-products management
• Lack of funding to support the scale up of the business
• Lack of awareness of value of recycled and recovered products, leading to low demand and high cost of recycled textile products
• Need for one global harmonised certification/instrument for the evaluation of environmental impacts of products.

Ercole Botto Paola

+39 0157134800

ercolebotto@reda.it