PUMA will produce new football shirts using old football kits

After creating the world's lightest football jersey a few months ago thanks to innovative Ultraweave technology, PUMA will now experiment with an equally innovative manufacturing process that uses existing football jerseys to produce new ones. This innovation could completely change the world of football, making it much more sustainable and helping the German brand to reduce waste now and then pave the way for more circular production models in the future. The process used in RE:JERSEY means that old garments with club logos, embroidery and badges, which previously hindered recycling efforts to turn old garments into new ones, can now be used. The RE:JERSEY project takes football uniforms as the main ingredient to create yarn for new jerseys.

In the recycling process, the garments are chemically broken down into their main components (depolymerisation). The colours are then filtered out and the material is chemically reassembled to create a yarn (repolymerisation) that has the same performance characteristics as virgin polyester. The RE:JERSEY project products will be worn on the pitch during pre-match warm-ups by PUMA clubs Manchester City, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Olympique de Marseille.