12 PROJOB WORKWEAR
CERTIFICATIONS & USP’ s
LCA
R-PE THREAD
LIFECYCLE ANALYSIS
RECYCLED THREAD
Life-cycle assessment( LCA) is a process of evaluating the effects that a product has on the environment over the entire period of its life.
It can be used to study the environmental impact of either a product or the function the product is designed to perform. LCA is commonly referred to as a“ cradle-to-grave” analysis. LCA’ s key elements are: 1) identify and quantify the environmental loads involved e. g. the energy and raw materials consumed, the emissions and wastes generated. 2) evaluate the potential environmental impacts of these loads. 3) assess the options available for reducing these environmental impacts.
Coats EcoVerde is the first globally avaiable 100 % recycled line of premium corespun and textured sewing threads, delivering the same proven level of performance as the industry leading non-recycled threads.
EcoVerde threads help complete the loop for garments and accessories that already use recycled polyester fabrics or other eco-friendly fabrics or materials. Waste plastic is collected from various industrial and post-consumer sources. Used plastic( PET) bottles are a significant proportion and an example of how this works. These are collected, sorted, cleaned, ground to flakes and then melted down and extruded into the fibre and fillaments from which EcoVerde sewing threads are made.