FREPI: Recyclability of our products 

FREPI: a potential recycling industry for Very High Visibility* PPE     
Coverguard has joined forces with other industry players (colleagues, customers and other players in the downstream sector) to form the FREPI project.   

FREPI is a cross-disciplinary collective project co-directed by OREE and co-funded by ADEME, the aim of which is to determine whether it is technically possible and financially viable to create a recycling channel for Very High Visibility PPE.   

Supervised by the FREPI project, laboratory tests will make it possible to :   

• study different techniques for separating materials: reflective tape, press studs, zips, marking, lining, etc.   
• identify and characterise the recycled material and its reusability.  

The project plans to produce a white paper, freely accessible to the general public, with recommendations and guidelines for ecodesigning very high visibility PPE and facilitating recycling from the design stage.   

*To date, there is no recycling system in France for Very High Visibility PPE, which represents a huge source of unrecycled waste (converted, in the best of cases, into Solid Recovered Fuel).