Introducing circular economy system in the UK insoles market

这个项目是关于在英国鞋垫市场引入可持续的循环经济系统。今天，绝大多数鞋垫将被填埋。我们的项目将创造一个具有碳中性影响的新商业模式。我们计划建立一个简单的销售系统，人们每次退还旧鞋垫时，都会得到下一双鞋的折扣。我们还将创建订阅年度计划，当他们退回旧鞋垫时，他们将自动收到新的鞋垫。然后，我们将从这些旧鞋垫或其他竞争对手公司那里获得任何其他鞋垫，并对其进行更好/另一种利用。我们目前有一个系统，可以回收我们的制造后废物中的削减，这些废物回到鞋类生产中。此外，我们返还的鞋垫被清洗和重新利用，并捐赠给无家可归的人。然而，在这个项目中，我们希望将其提升到另一个水平，并大幅增加从英国垃圾填埋场分流的旧鞋垫的数量。我们将提供一种简单的方法来退回旧鞋垫，以及可重复使用的全标签和可回收的包装，以使退货过程尽可能容易。我们将根据产品的状况考虑重新使用、再利用或回收产品。再利用可以包括清洁、消毒和转售到其他渠道和市场，或者增加我们对慈善机构的捐款，比如我们的合作伙伴慈善机构忘记的脚，为无家可归的人提供鞋子。为了重新利用和回收，我们计划将回收材料增加到新鞋子中，该项目还将探索回收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.