Prada Re-Nylon - Episode 5 - What We Carry

The story behind the new #PradaReNylon sustainability initiative has been charted across the globe - uncovering the methods by which harmful and wasteful materials - plastic ocean waste, fishing nets, discarded textiles - are regenerated, revitalised. In the final step of this journey through the Re-Nylon project, we are guided by #Prada reporter #AmandaGorman, the inaugural US Youth Poet Laureate whose work celebrates community and social change, and the engineer and architect Arthur Huang, a trailblazer and National Geographic Explorer who focuses on the idea of upcycling waste into new forms. They travelled to Slovenia, a country which has latterly become a hub of a new regenerative and sustainable industry, with 40,000 tons of material recycled annually. It is also home of Aquafil’s production plant for ECONYL®, established in the city of Ljubljana. Alongside Giulio Bonazzi, Chairman and CEO of Aquafil, we are allowed to see some of the intricate chemical recycling process of depolymerisation, used to transforming tons of collected waste into virgin quality, pioneering new ECONYL® yarn. #PradaGroup