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Embracing sustainability in the sports shoe market: recycling high-performance footwear

Episode Summary

Discover how innovative recycling helps recover high-quality materials from complex sports shoes, enabling circularity without compromising high-performance requirements.

Episode Notes

Discover how innovative recycling helps recover high-quality materials from complex sports shoes, enabling circularity without compromising high-performance requirements. 

Envalior produces the soft thermoplastic co-polyester material Arnitel for use in durable high energy rebound mid soles for high-performance sports shoes. A high-performance sports shoe is a complex product that requires a versatile, advanced recycling technology that brings materials back to a virgin feed stock that is ‘pure’ enough for re-use. This podcast addresses the challenge – and the solution.