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“Rags, rags, who has rags anymore? I give the highest value for your rags,” sang Wim Sonneveld in his 'House, garden and kitchen song' from 1955. The rag man or ragman was someone who bought old clothes and resold them...
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TILBURG - From rag to sock. You take a thousand kilos of old uniforms, grind them, add old fishing nets or PET bottles, process them into yarn and run them through the sock machines. And voilà: that is roughly the...
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The corona crisis quickly made imports from China to Europe a lot more difficult and expensive. Patrick Welp then decided to produce his socks himself from now on. In the Netherlands and from recycled textile waste. With this sustainable innovation,...
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WoW! These socks (Vodde) consist of 52% recycled cotton from collected pieces of fabric, 44% recycled polyester from collected PET bottles and 4% elastane. The Dutch company Vodde reuses discarded textiles to make new socks. Vodde makes its yarn from...
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More than 3,000 kg of old work clothing is ready for recycling. In collaboration with VODDE, we are making 50,000 pairs of high-quality new circular work socks from this batch within the EU!
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