As the world's best badminton players travel home after the World Championships in Denmark, the sport's leading manufacturer Yonex told Reuters some of them were fighting it out for the first time in sneakers made partly from recycled materials.
saying 96% of the polyester it uses is recycled, sporting goods makers have in the past decade raced to make sneakers and apparel more sustainable.
Yonex - which makes the official tournament shuttlecocks used in all major Badminton World Federation events, as well as the Olympic Games - sponsored apparel and equipment for dozens of players at the world championships, including Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalists Chen Yu Fei from China and Denmark's Viktor Axelsen.
While developing the products, Yonex thought about how to blend materials in order to overcome the challenge of the physical properties of sustainable materials generally being different to traditional materials. Taiwan's Victor, a rival to Yonex in badminton kit, lags Yonex in dressing its professional players in sustainably made products, but says on its website it makes some textiles from 100% recycled PET bottles.
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