#07 Monique Maissan - Founder of Waste2Wear (Recycled Polyester from PET bottles) ) 🌱

This week we are meeting with Monique Maissan, she is the founder of Waste2Wear and a textile Engineer passionate to make beautiful textile products, and in particular high-quality garments. She was however always troubled by the industry she was working in, due to its negative environmental impact and poor social compliance.

When she came in contact, in 2008, with the initial invention of making fibers and thick yarns out of plastic bottles she thought: this is it! I have to work on this to turn round the textile industry.

Through creating Waste2Wear the need of collaboration with not only players in the textile industry became obvious, and often very unexpected collaborations and partnerships were formed. In trying to create awareness and actively playing a roll in solving the problem, the purpose of Waste2Wear became more clear: It was meant to become a solution provider. Using Recycled Polyester as a tool to create partnerships, collaborations and finding solutions to solve the plastic pollution.

CONTENT & TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE EPISODE 

00:50 Monique presents herself and Waste2Ware?

01:30 What is sustainable fashion according to Monique?

02:30 Her pathway in fashion and what brings her to sustainable fashion?

04:00 How did she starts Waste2Ware?

06:00 What is the process of manufacturing recycled polyester, does it include circularity? 

09:42 What is recycled polyester and how much energy do you save when producing it ?

12:00 What kind of product do you make with recycled polyester?

14:00 What is a sustainable product after all? 

15:50 What are the financial results of implementing a sustainable strategy?

18:00 What has been the trigger of the sustainability awareness shift? 

19:30 How can you convince people to go sustainable? 

22:00 What are her biggest challenge other the next years?

24:00 What is the reality of producing in China and in India in term ethics and sustainability? 

26:00 What does the block chain is going to change in the process of manufacturing 

27:00 What does she want to close the door to in our industry? 

29:30 What does she look at to get inspired?

30:30 What is the last piece of cloth she bought? And who she would like to listen to in this podcast? 

KEY LEARNINGS

When you use existing PET (polyethylene terephthalate), you can save about 75% energy, 85% water, 70% of carbon footprint. This is the difference between virgin polyester and recycled polyester.

Other the years, we, as a company we have recycled about 30 million of plastic bottle and we have saved 2,3 million kilo of carbon and 26 million litres of water and about 26mega heads of energy. 

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