Passion for sports, expertise in the waste sector, and environmental protection are the
\npillars of the esosport project, a brand of ESO RECYCLING, which since 2009 has been operating throughout
\nItaly for the collection and recycling of end-of-life sports materials: sports shoes, bicycle
\ntires and inner tubes, helmets, tennis and padel balls.<\/p>\n
What might seem like waste destined for landfill finds new life in a At the ESO RECYCLING facility, new secondary raw materials are created in the form of colored “The esosport project was born from a phone call with two friends, Nicolas Meletiou recalls. It was Back then, people didn’t talk about circular economy<\/strong> the way they do today, but for me the path was clear: Many years have passed since then and, looking back, it seems incredible how much we’ve Starting from the conviction that it’s possible to reduce waste accumulation in landfills, the collection and The initiative “Betty’s Garden<\/strong>“, dedicated to Elisabetta Salvioni Meletiou, together with the “Pheidippides www.esosport.it – www.esorecycling.it<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Passion for sports, expertise in the waste sector, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13996,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions\/13996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndifferent form with esosport, thanks to processing at the ESO RECYCLING “Amato Cannara” facility<\/strong> in
\nTolentino in the Marche region, specialized in treating sports waste, waste from the fashion
\nand workwear industries, and PPE (personal protective equipment) collected through ESO’s back
\nto work project.<\/p>\n
\ngranules, giving life to new projects and initiatives focused on environmental sustainability through the
\ncreation of sports and playground surfaces, tiles, and sports products.
\nThe esosport project, with a network of over 300 collection points distributed throughout Italy, was born from
\nan idea by Nicolas Meletiou, managing director of ESO<\/strong> and passionate athlete, who has always
\nmaintained that the environment is a resource to be preserved and that waste can be transformed from scrap to
\nresource, minimizing its impact through the search for new ways for its
\nregeneration.<\/p>\n
\n2009. We’re all passionate runners and I’ve been working in waste management since 1997. They asked me: is there a way
\nto avoid throwing shoes in the general waste?<\/p>\n
\ntransform waste and put resources back into circulation.<\/p>\n
\nmanaged to achieve together. Today, thanks to those who believed in our project and supported us to
\nhelp it grow, playgrounds, athletic tracks, and sports surfaces<\/strong> are a wonderful Italian
\nreality.”<\/p>\n
\nregeneration of end-of-life sports materials opens new paths for the creation of<\/strong>
\nprojects that involve the transformation of materials and their reuse<\/strong>, often with a
\nreturn to the community and territory from which they were collected.<\/p>\n
\nTrack”, are the finest examples of sports waste transformation becoming surfaces
\nfor playgrounds and athletic tracks.<\/p>\n