Ecoalf

Ecoalf is a fashion company based in Madrid that creates its entire clothing line using recycled materials including plastic bottles, tyres, coffee waste and fishing nets. 

The company was created in 2009 with the aim of creating a sustainable model to reduce the burden on the worlds' natural resources as well as the amount of waste produced by large industries. 

The company has launched a range of clothing and shoes made from nylon, wool, cotton and rubber gathered debris collected from the oceans, primarily off the Spanish and/or Thailand Coast. The Ecoalf Foundation involves over 3000 fishermen in 37 ports, adding a total of 550 trawlers and collecting more than 330 tons of garbage from the ocean-beds. Various components are used in the manufacturing process, such as:

• Discarded Fishing nets,
• PET Plastic Bottles,
• Post-Industrial cottons and wool.

Some of their shoes collection have a water repellent outerwear made from post-consumer coffee grounds. The company has an agreement with a large coffee chain in Taiwan to take their used grounds, dry them out, refine them into a powder and mix them with recycled plastic polymers to create a new fabric (and no, it does not smell like coffee).

The goal of Ecoalf extends to create a recycled clothing brand with the same quality and technical advancements as non-recycled clothing brands in the market. The company is involved in the process from start to finish, be it waste collection, recycling, technologies, design or retail. 

Ecoalf also refrains from the use of leather in its endeavor to use only those materials which have a low environmental impact and are animal friendly. Moreover, the company refrains from the use of C6 in its water resistant clothing, relying instead on CO, meaning its products are free of PFC (Free Fluorocarbon).

The Company operates three retail stores, in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain as well as Berlin, Germany and also runs an online retail store providing shipping worldwide. 

The organization has received the B Corporation Certificate, signifying its commitment to people and the planet.