The textiles, which are produced using the mass balance approach, are climate-friendly and highly functional, all while helping to address a major waste problem. Discarded car tires are considered difficult to recycle and until now have mostly been incinerated or sent to the landfill – yet there are ways to reuse them as an environmentally friendly crude oil alternative.

Vaude is the first outdoor company to take advantage of a technology in the textile sector that uses a thermochemical process to produce polyamide from synthetics that are difficult to recycle. Pyrolysis oil recycled from used tires is fed into a polyamide production system in a certified mass balance process. As a result, this innovative, sustainable material is just as resilient, fast-drying and high-performing as conventional polyamide derived from crude oil – but far more environmentally friendly. This technology saves 60% of CO2 emissions during production, conserves scarce resources, and makes a valuable contribution to climate protection.

Vaude has used the new material to produce the entire range of Farley Stretch Pants, offering ten models for women and men. What’s more, the line of Yaras Zip-Off Pants features even more models for cyclists.