Our eco-design approaches and criteria
How does Decathlon eco-design? When is a product considered eco-designed?
Decathlon singapore's eco efforts
You probably love and care for the environment, as do we!
At Decathlon Singapore, we are dedicated to having 30% of its turnover to eco-designed products by 2023.
This is a goal we are trying to move towards, and can only achieve together with your help.
Discover some of Decathlon's different eco-design approaches in this article.
How does it work?
Plastic bottles are cleaned and crushed into chips. These chips are then poured and heated and turn into a kind of paste.
The dough is transformed into a filament using an extrusion screw.
This filament is wound around a spool – and that's how recycled polyester thread is created!
“At Decathlon, we claim eco-design on a product when more than 70% of its weight is made from recycled polyester.”
How does it work?
To create the yarn necessary for making textiles, polyester is placed in the form of a paste in a sort of tube.
With a very fine hole at its end, an endless screw (called an extrusion screw) pushes the material out of this tube into a fine filament.
At the same time as the polyester paste, colour pigments are inserted therein in powder form. So when the thread comes out, it's coloured and ready to be used to design your products.
“At Decathlon, we claim eco-design on a product when more than 50% of its weight is made up of fabrics dyed using the Dope Dyed technique.”
How does it work?
In organic farming, seeds used are non-GMO (genetically modified organism) seeds.
To avoid using pesticides when growing, our farmers also add natural products that repel harmful insects instead of using harmful chemicals.
“At Decathlon, we claim eco-design on a product when 90% of its main fabric is made of cotton from organic farming.”
How does it work?
To recycle cotton, we recover clothes or fabrics made from 100% cotton. The fibers are then extracted to form a new thread.
During their extraction, the recycled fibers are cut and therefore weakened. Blending with virgin cotton fiber is necessary to ensure its strength.
