The fifth and final step of the series What We Carry, is set in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a hub of a new regenerative and sustainable industry, with 40,000 tons of material recycled annually. Prada reporter Amanda Gorman – the inaugural US Youth Poet Laureate – and the engineer and architect Arthur Huang, a trailblazer and National Geographic Explorer, bring us in the production plant for ECONYL®, alongside Giulio Bonazzi, Chairman and CEO of Aquafil. Here, following of intricate chemical recycling process of depolymerisation, tons of collected waste are transformed into pristine, pioneering new ECONYL® yarn.
n° 45 - 12 November 2019