What is the difficulty in recycling wings?Updated 5 months ago

When it comes to fibers, it is always difficult to produce new, high-quality fibers from recycled material. We are working on it, but it will take some time. Of course, you can also think in terms of upcycling and build something else out of a wing that is recycled. But if, as an ideal scenario, you want to have a kind of circular economy in which a used wing comes back, is completely recycled and new wings are then made from the recycled materials, it becomes significantly more difficult. This is something that cannot be done indefinitely because the molecular structure of the material changes with each recycling cycle. For example, you could mix some recycled material with some unrecycled to ensure you always maintain the same high quality. As said, this is a topic that we are discussing with our producer, but it is a big challenge. Perhaps we also need to think about rolling out such a concept across the entire industry in order to achieve the necessary critical mass so that it really offers meaningful added value in terms of sustainability. We believe in the industry we all have a responsibility to think in this direction. We cannot absolve ourselves of this and must take these steps little by little.