Hub1916: clothes made from plastic bottles

Since its inception, Hub1916 has used more than 1.4 million recycled plastic bottles in the clothing it has made, with the production of each piece of uniform requiring between 7 and 14 bottles.Share Jean-François Tardif Le SoleilAlexis Gemme -Piacente dreamed of going into business. But he wanted to do something different. Concerned about ecology and aware of the impact on the planet of the circular economy, he became interested in recycled polyester. Today, he is the head of Hub1916, the only Canadian company to produce clothing using recycled plastic bottles as the raw material.