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Aquafil fights against landfill

12/12/2011
The president of Italian yarn producer Aquafil, Giulio Bonazzi, has said that a conviction “that has matured over years” of the need to protect the environment is at the root of his company’s launch of Econyl, a new brand of polyamide 6 products obtained exclusively from recycled raw materials.

Aquafil inaugurated a new Econyl factory in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, in May 2011, making polyamide 6 by recycling materials that would otherwise go to waste, such as abandoned fishing nets found on the sea bed.

“Econyl is opening up a new idea of sustainability," Mr Bonazzi has said. “This is the result of a deep conviction that has matured over the years, according to which sustainability should be a way of thinking and being. Every year, over 70 million tonnes of fibres are produced and the textile industry will no longer be able to continue allowing these to finish in landfill at the end of their life. Econyl is a solution that the most far-seeing and demanding companies are already coming to appreciate.”

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