Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Cramped (Hactl) – Hong Kong’s largest fair handler – has successfully remodeled its mature workers uniforms into 5,000 upcycled cups by its “Zero Waste Uniform Upcycling Mission”.
The initiative marks the first zero-ruin upcycling venture for mature clothing within the history of Hong Kong’s aviation industry.
The mature uniforms were manufactured from sturdy, water resistant blended fibres, which is at probability of be generally sophisticated to recycle and generally end up in landfill. Via the “Zero Waste Uniform Upcycling Mission”, polyester fibres from the mature uniforms were recycled by soften-granulation and various processes into raw plastic granules that were then mature to ticket recyclable plastic cups. The venture has demonstrated the unlimited chances of zero-ruin upcycling of mature uniforms for the aviation industry and various sectors.
Says Hactl Chief Govt Wilson Kwong: “In Hong Kong, the aviation industry, like many industries, presents uniforms for frontline workers. Facing mature uniforms is a significant environmental scenario. We hope that by this venture, we are able to damage by venerable barriers and recycle mature uniforms to create ‘zero ruin upcycling’ and gash back the burden on landfills, whereas encouraging the industry to make contributions in opposition to a circular economy and sustainable pattern.”
Since launching its “Inexperienced Terminal” programme in 2018, Hactl has been making sure impacts on the community and environment. It has committed to reaching a 75% ruin recycling price by 2030. The “Zero Waste Uniform Upcycling Mission” is one of Hactl’s most important initiatives to reduction realise this purpose.
In step with statistics launched by the Environmental Safety Division, Hong Kong’s textile ruin recycling price increased from about 4% in 2018 to almost about 11% in 2022. Nonetheless, firm uniforms are largely manufactured from blended presents and are typically ever recycled. Even when recycled, they are fully mature to make recycled textile fibres for manufacturing original clothing. By upcycling mature uniforms into non-textile merchandise, Hactl’s “Zero Waste Uniform Upcycling Mission” has opened the door to original probabilities for raw plastics derived from clothing. Most importantly, the fact that these 5,000 cups, manufactured from upcycled presents, can even be recycled again in future to make assorted excessive-worth merchandise demonstrates the probability and doable of reaching a circular economy.
