Carrefour recycles our jeans and it pays off

After Monoprix, which is committed to food anti-waste, the Carrefour stores are turning to textile recycling . From 11 to 23 February 2015, 219 French Carrefour hypermarkets participate in a large collection of used jeans. So this is the time to empty our closets. For 2 clean and in good condition jeans (pants are accepted), Carrefour offers a voucher of 5 € to be used on the shelves Shoes, Baby, Child, Woman, Man and Household linen and Accessories (from of 30 € of purchases) until March 31, 2015.

And what about our used jeans?

For this recycling operation, Carrefour works with Ecotextile , a company specializing in the collection of used textiles. She performs the sorting of clothes and takes care of their valorization. The textile collected by Ecotextile is sorted according to 4 main families of products:
- Reuse of used clothing (43%): they are intended to be sold at retail on the national and international market.
- Valorisation of the material of industrial wiping cloth (30%): this category of textile is then distributed in the automobile industry or in mechanical workshops for example.
- Recycling intended for the recovery of fibers (12%): the materials are intended to feed companies that transform garments into fiber and yarn to re-sew them.
- Thermal recovery (15%): these are all textiles that do not fall into the previous categories.