Fostering a circular economy by collecting used clothing and household items to recycle and re-sell.
Jeplan envisions a world in which we circulate everything, meaning all used or unwanted personal belongings are collected, the materials are recycled, and new products are released and sold. Starting with cotton and polyester, the company is reimagining waste disposal to reduce the use of petroleum and diminish carbon emissions. Based in Japan, Jeplan has established collection points around the country in collaboration with major retail and apparel brands to gather discarded clothing. Jeplan then recycles the materials and sells them back to these brands and their consumers, fostering a circular economy. One of their projects recycled used clothing into bio-ethanol that was then used to sustainably power a car. Jeplan is striving toward a goal of recycling 10 percent of the entire world's used and unwanted clothing.
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JEPLAN has just started a PET Bottle Chemical Recycling factory operation. It's a commercial scale!! (production capacity 22,000 ton/year)
ペットリファインテクノロジーは2021年にペットボトルのリサイクル工場を再稼働しました。 We restarted our operation of plant, making Bottles from Bottles, on May 27, 2021.
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A Tokyo-based startup specializing in the business of recycling clothes is slated to proceed to the final stage of an annual global startup competition.
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