Introducing circular economy system in the UK insoles market

该项目旨在将可持续循环经济系统引入英国鞋垫市场。今天，绝大多数的鞋垫将被填埋。我们的项目将创造一种碳中和影响的新商业模式。我们计划建立一个简单的销售系统，人们每次退回旧鞋垫时，就会在购买下一双鞋垫时获得折扣。我们还将创建一个订阅年度计划，当他们退回使用过的鞋垫时，他们将自动收到新的鞋垫。然后，我们将这些旧鞋垫，或其他竞争对手公司的任何其他鞋垫，并更好地利用它们。目前，我们已经建立了一个系统，将制造后的废料回收利用，再用于制鞋。此外，我们返回的鞋垫被清洗和重新利用，并捐赠给无家可归者。然而，在这个项目中，我们想把它带到另一个层次，大幅增加旧鞋垫的数量，这些旧鞋垫将从英国的垃圾填埋场转移出来。我们将提供一种简单的方法来回收旧鞋垫，并提供可重复使用的完全标签和可回收的包装，使退货过程尽可能简单。我们将根据产品的状况考虑产品的再利用、重新利用或回收。再利用包括清洁和消毒，转售到其他渠道和市场，或者增加我们对慈善机构的捐赠，比如我们的合作伙伴慈善机构“遗忘的脚”，为无家可归者提供鞋子。为了重新利用和回收利用，我们计划将回收材料增加到新鞋中，该项目还将探索回收利用到广泛的工业和家庭应用中，如学校操场垫、家庭绝缘材料和鞋子填充物。我们将赋予旧鞋垫新的生命，在矫形器市场创造可持续的循环经济。

This project is all about introducing a sustainable circular economy system in the UK insoles market. Today, the vast majority of insoles will go to landfill. Our project will create a new business model with a carbon neutral impact.We plan to build a simple selling system where people will receive a discount off their next pair every time they return their old insoles. We will also create a subscription annual plan where they will automatically receive new insoles when they return their used insoles.We will then take these old insoles, or any other insoles from other competitor companies, and make better/another use of them. We currently have a system in place to recycle off cuts from our post-manufacturing waste that goes back into shoe production. Also our returned insoles get cleaned and repurposed and donated to the homeless. However, in this project we want to take it to another level and increase dramatically the amount of old insoles which will be diverted from UK's landfills.We will provide a simple method to return the old insoles together with reusable fully labeled and recyclable packaging to make the return process as easy as possible. The we will look at reusing, re-purposing or recycling the products depending on their condition. Re-using could include cleaning and sanitizing and reselling to alternate channels and markets or increasing our donations to charities like our partner charity Forgotten Feet providing shoes for the homeless. For re-purposing and recycling we have a plan to increase the recycled material into new shoes and also the project will explore recycling into a wide range of industrial and domestic applications like school playground mats, insulation for homes and fillers for shoes. We will give the old insoles new lease of life and create sustainable circular economy in the orthotic market.