LO NEEL PARIS member of Re_Fashion

LO NEEL PARIS member Re_Fashion

Who is Re_Fashion ?

An eco-organization, that is to say a private non-profit company approved by the public authorities and financed by the eco-contribution paid by our members.

Re_Fashion ensures the prevention and management of the end of life of clothing textiles, household linens and shoes placed on the French market by supporting the collection, repair and reuse.

Support LO NEEL in committing to an eco-design approach and support downstream stakeholders to develop the recycling industry in France.

THE BENEFITS OF REVALORIZATION

Collection and sorting are an essential step in the life cycle of textile products and optimized recovery. When placed in the right place, 99.7% of clothes, linen and shoes are recycled.

Some definitions :

- Upcycling or surcycling: consists of recovering materials or products that are no longer used in order to transform them into materials or products of higher quality or utility. It is therefore a recycling “from above”.
- Downcycling or uncycling: in waste management, also called devaluation, downcycling is a process by which material waste or a useless product is transformed into a new material or product of lower quality or value.
- Closed loop recycling: use of MPR for identical use and destination without functional loss of the material: recycling of a PET bottle into a PET bottle, recycling of packaging glass into packaging glass, recycling of coatings road workers in the manufacture of new coatings, etc. [11]
- Open loop recycling: use of recycling material for a different destination, but replacing a virgin raw material: recycling of a PET bottle into polar fiber, recycling of paper into insulation product, etc. [11]

Re_Fashion photo credit: Averie Woodard