Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Diminutive (Hactl) – Hong Kong’s largest fair handler – has successfully reworked its light employees uniforms into 5,000 upcycled cups by its “Zero Raze Uniform Upcycling Mission”.
The initiative marks the first zero-extinguish upcycling project for light clothing within the history of Hong Kong’s aviation industry.
The light uniforms had been fabricated from sturdy, waterproof blended fibres, that are on the total complicated to recycle and on the total discontinue up in landfill. Thru the “Zero Raze Uniform Upcycling Mission”, polyester fibres from the light uniforms had been recycled by melt-granulation and other processes into raw plastic granules that had been then veteran to carry out recyclable plastic cups. The project has demonstrated the limitless potentialities of zero-extinguish upcycling of light uniforms for the aviation industry and other sectors.
Says Hactl Chief Government Wilson Kwong: “In Hong Kong, the aviation industry, cherish many industries, affords uniforms for frontline employees. Coping with light uniforms is a necessary environmental scenario. We hope that by this project, we can spoil by broken-down boundaries and recycle light uniforms to discontinue ‘zero extinguish upcycling’ and lower the burden on landfills, whereas encouraging the industry to make contributions in the direction of a circular economy and sustainable construction.”
Since launching its “Green Terminal” programme in 2018, Hactl has been ensuring impacts on the neighborhood and ambiance. It has dedicated to achieving a 75% extinguish recycling rate by 2030. The “Zero Raze Uniform Upcycling Mission” is one of Hactl’s most predominant initiatives to serve realise this goal.
In step with statistics released by the Environmental Security Division, Hong Kong’s textile extinguish recycling rate increased from about 4% in 2018 to almost 11% in 2022. On the different hand, firm uniforms are mostly fabricated from blended materials and are infrequently ever recycled. Even when recycled, they’re handiest veteran to ranking recycled textile fibres for manufacturing recent clothing. By upcycling light uniforms into non-textile products, Hactl’s “Zero Raze Uniform Upcycling Mission” has opened the door to recent potentialities for raw plastics derived from clothing. Most importantly, the fact that these 5,000 cups, made of upcycled materials, is also recycled one more time in future to ranking other high-price products demonstrates the likelihood and attainable of achieving a circular economy.
