Recycling is hardly a new fad and there are many examples of airline bits converted into useful goods as they are retired. For JetBlue the move to new uniforms late last year meant a massive collection of old clothes to dispose of and the net result is a line of bags from Manhattan Portage.
The new bags are manufactured from fabric created by recycling the old uniforms into new nylon. All of them also include a JetBlue branding on the bag as a reminder of where the goods came from.
Southwest Airlines did similar with the roughly 40 acres of leather in its seats cycled out of the fleet in 2014; soccer balls and tote bags were some of the results from that effort.
Always fun to see the airlines doing something a bit more than just going through the motions with their product cycles.
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Nylon from recycled clothes? That’s quite a stretch 🙁
I like LHs move of recycling live vests. The charm of these is that you recognise some original bits. Not so sure about the B6 nylon?
My understanding is that the polyester in the original clothes is processed into the nylon. Plastics are amazing.