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Spain: innovation in footwear materials recycling

10/07/2014

Organisations in Spanish provinces Valladolid and La Rioja, including El Centro Tecnológico Cartif de Valladolid and El Centro Tecnológico del Calzado de La Rioja, have developed a new way of chemically recycling PU foam from the soles of shoes for use in new foam products. Recycled foam is obtained through a chemical process called glycolysis,...

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