Yünsa Recycled 8.7 Million PET Bottles into Fabric

Yünsa, Europe’s largest high-end woolen fabric manufacturer, achieved significant success with its sustainability-focused studies. According to the data of Unifi, one of the most effective recycling companies in the world, Yünsa has transformed 8 million 765 thousand 691 PET bottles into fabric by using more than 147 thousand kilograms of recycled REPREVE® fiber in its collections.

Yünsa, which increases its activities in sustainable production to leave a more livable world for future generations, designs sustainable fabric collections for world-famous fashion brands. Yünsa, which focuses on the sustainable fashion concept when preparing its collections, produces fabrics from recycled materials as well as environmentally friendly fabrics that can be dissolved in nature. Aiming to recycle waste and reduce natural resource use by implementing the circular economy model, the Company cooperates with U.S.-based recycling company Unifi to produce fabrics from waste PET bottles.

Nature-protecting production concept

Yünsa General Manager Mustafa Sürmegöz stated the following regarding the subject, “In line with our understanding of production that protects the nature, we attach importance to presenting products produced by consuming less natural resources and using recycled materials in our collections. In this context, we produce special REPREVE® fiber blended fabrics produced by recycling waste pet bottles, in cooperation with Unifi, one of the most effective recycling companies in the world. By using more than 147 thousand kilograms of REPREVE® fiber in our collections to date, we have converted approximately 8.7 million plastic bottles into fabric. Thus, we saved 2,283, 530 kw/h of energy and 746, 243 liters of water in total. In other words, we have achieved energy savings equivalent to the 1-year electricity consumption of 83 households, or water savings equal to the 1-year drinking water requirement of 1.022 people.”