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ReSkiBoot

Description

Take-Back & Re-Use system from ski boot rental for sorting and recycling of multi-plastics components

Start Date: September 1, 2020
End Date: February 29, 2024
Budget: €2,819,037
Funding: LIFE Programme

Description

Project Summary

RESKIBOOT targets the problem of plastic waste management with a new model applied to ski boot construction.

RESKIBOOT’s value proposition is the provision of high-quality and cost-competitive ski boots made with recycled materials zeroing plastic post-processing waste and decreasing end-of-life disposal with the implementation of a take-back and re-use service for post-consumer ski boots.

Project Objectives

  • Launch on the market of ski boots made with about 90% of recycled raw materials (both for the construction of the external part and the internal part).
  • Manufacture 1.000 pairs of ski boots, characterize and use them on real slopes.
  • Develop an optimized manufacturing process for ski boots using about 90% recycled raw materials and eliminating processing offcuts.
  • Define a circular economy business model for ski rentals.
  • Define a new service for rentals to re-use the hard-outer shell and substitute the internal liner.
  • Get at least a 7% reduction of ski boot final cost.
  • Measure the environmental and circularity performance of the new product system and show the improvement compared to the current baseline situation.
  • Provide guidelines for market replication of ski boots.
  • Realize a certified environmental product declaration of the new ski boot and provide product category rules for other ski boots producers.

Consortium

  • Grifone Srl – BG

Associated Partners:

  • Dalbello Srl – IT
  • Rent a Sport Italia S.r.l. – IT
  • Plastic Sort Srl – IT
  • Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna – DICAM – IT
  • Studio Fieschi & Soci Srl – IT
  • European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI) – BE

With the contribution of the LIFE Programme of the European Union.