Project

Safety shoes

We developed circular collections with safety shoe manufacturers. To ensure that these shoes are circular not only in design but also in practice, we then set to work on operationalising circularity. How we did that? Organising recycling, finding next-use applications and weaving circularity into operations. Personal protective equipment such as safety shoes is an ideal product group for applying circularity. In this project, we managed to close the loop, a great result!

Circularity in action: C_passport®

Circular concepts must be followed up by actions, otherwise sustainable design loses its added value. This is why we have captured all design elements in C_passports®. The result? For the entire supply chain, it is clear which materials (as much as possible recycled) have been used, what the impact of those materials is and what the next applications are. That information is kept up-to-date and supplemented where possible in the coming years. This is how we move from ambition to transition: the circular concept comes to fruition.