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

Materials And Publications

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