100% MAIER SPORTS CYCLES TO AGAIN 100% MAIER SPORTS
Circle for future
We are currently working hard to develop a 100% sustainable clothing concept called design2recycle–recycle2design (D2R–R2D). The idea behind it is to enable our products to be recycled at the end of their lives and upcycled into high-value items. We will be adopting a fully circular model for our pants, jackets and t-shirts that will see old Maier Sports products reincarnated as new ones.
Our goal is to drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels while massively increasing the amount of recycled raw materials we use. The most sustainable way to do this is to recycle our clothing and use the recovered fibres in our own supply chain.
Our video shows the life cycle of a sustainable product from beginning to end: from manufacture and use to being returned to the factory for recycling, thread recovery, fabric production and finally, being transformed into a new Maier Sports product. At the same time, Near Field Communication technology (NFC) will allow us to capture information about materials on tags, making our separation, sorting and recycling processes much more effective. Discover our sustainable products in our LATIT pants line.
This is how you can recycle your product:
1.) Pack the product cleanly incl. the sewn-in NFC chip in a shipping box*.
2.) Deliver the package directly to the following address (no separate return bill is required):
Maier Sports GmbH
Recycling Department
Nürtinger Straße 27
73257 Köngen
Thank you for your environmental contribution.
*We can currently only use Maier Sports products equipped with the NFC chip for recycling.
FAQs
NFC is short for ‘Near Field Communication’, which means the chip can communicate with industrial scanners or smartphones in close proximity.
We use NFC technology to ensure efficient recycling into high-quality base components.
NFC technology is widely used in shops, petrol stations etc. to allow paying via debit or credit cards or via your smartphone. Moreover, NFC chips can be found in objects as diverse as ski lift tickets or books as part of a public library system.
Products with NFC tags can be identified via a label woven into the fabric. You can get information on which technology is used and where the tag is located from the label.
Simply scan in the tag with your smartphone to read the stored information.
The tag can be scanned at a distance of up to 5 cm.
It’s possible to deactivate the tag either by removing it or wiping it electronically. Unfortunately, this also makes recycling your clothes more difficult, as the recycling company can no longer automatically scan your clothes to determine what they’re made of.
No, the NFC chip does not trigger an alarm at security checks.
No. The only information stored are the date and time at which the information on the chip has been read by a scanner or smartphone. We can also store the location of the chip at the time the information has been read, but this requires the user’s explicit consent.
As we do not link NFC chips to personal data, the GDPR does not apply in this case.
As used by Maier Sports, the NFC chip can be used to determine whether a product is a Maier Sports original or a copy.