Denim recycling platform set up in Indonesia
28/11/2022
Part of Matahari’s ESG Sunrise Project, drop boxes with instructions for collecting second-hand denim from Matahari customers are being placed in three stores located at Supermal Karawaci, in Tangerang, Metropolitan Mall, in Bekasi, and Ciputra Mall, in Jakarta. Customers are invited to bring in their old denim products from any brand, for which they will be offered a discount when purchasing new Nevada Denim products. The first trials are scheduled to go from mid-November to end of December 2022.
Owned by Singapore-headquartered group RGE, APR operates a rayon production plant in Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau, Indonesia. In 2021, it commissioned a report by Closed Loop Fashion and Reverse Resources to survey, map and identify potential sources of pre-consumer textile waste supply from textile factories in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The study was launched as a preliminary to a future recycling plant that APR intends to build, and which could have a capacity of 12,000 tonnes per year. The new facility will convert cotton and cotton-rich textile waste and viscose textile into new materials.
APR director Basrie Kamba commented: “We believe [this partnership with Matahari] will contribute to the reduction of 26 tonnes of textile waste within Indonesia through our sorting, tracing, and chemical recycling processes.”
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