Worn-out courier gear, sorted back into materials
A delivery bag is not one material, which is a large part of why so few of them are ever recycled. reco collects worn-out bags and courier clothing from your locations, takes them apart piece by piece, sorts every fraction, and records what happened at each step so you can report it.
The chain, end to end
You collect the gear and ship it. Everything after that is ours, and none of it is hidden from you.
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Gear collection
Worn-out gear is gathered at your locations, packed, and made ready for pickup. Sites can be anywhere your operation runs.
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Transport to reco
The gear travels to our facility in Denmark on transport we arrange.
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Material inspection
Everything is counted and registered on arrival, then inspected item by item. That count is the start of your record.
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Disassembly
Each item is taken apart into its separate pieces. A delivery bag is an assembly of textile, foam, plastic, zips and fittings, and none of it recycles cleanly until it has been separated.
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Material sorting
The pieces are sorted into clean material fractions. This is the step that decides what the material is actually worth at the other end.
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Recycling
Sorted fractions go on to recyclers who turn them into new products, from garden furniture to mattress filling.
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Data capture
What arrived, what came apart, which fraction it became and where it went are all logged as the work happens, rather than reconstructed at the end of the quarter.
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Your dashboard
The record appears in your dashboard, where it feeds equipment analysis and ESG reporting.
The disassembly is done in Danish prisons
Taking a delivery bag apart is patient hand work. No machine separates a bonded, stitched and riveted assembly into clean fractions, so somebody has to do it piece by piece.
reco runs that work in partnership with Danish prisons. It is structured work with a visible result, and it gives the programme the hand capacity this kind of gear needs. Both halves of that are real: the material genuinely could not be recycled without it.
Every step, on the record
reco captures data from the first pickup to the last sorted fraction. It is not a report written after the fact, it is the operating record of the work itself, which is why it survives contact with an auditor.
- Material volumes and fractions, logged as they are counted
- Equipment analysis drawn from the same record
- Audit-ready documentation for ESG reporting
What it costs, and what you do
The commercial model is deliberately boring.
No up-front investment
No onboarding fee and no startup cost. A recycling fee per item, plus transport from your location. That is the price list.
One partner for the whole chain
Logistics, inspection, disassembly, sorting, recycling and reporting all sit with reco. Your side of it is collecting the gear and shipping it.
Every step visible
You have access to each step of the programme as it runs. There are no processes we keep to ourselves.
Documentation that holds up
Transparent, audit-ready reporting on material volumes, shaped for the ESG requirements you already have to answer.
PreLoved: the clothing that is not finished yet
Not all courier clothing that comes back is worn out. A good deal of it is simply unused, and incinerating something that still works is an expensive way to tidy up.
PreLoved collects used courier clothing, inspects every item for reusability, sorts it by type and size, has it professionally cleaned through the same Danish prison partnership, and puts it back into service as courier gear. Items that do not meet the standard are recycled as textile waste. Because it travels on transport already heading to reco, it adds almost nothing in logistics.
Talk to us about your gear
Tell us what you have, roughly how much of it there is, and where it sits. We will tell you what comes apart, what it becomes, and what it costs to run.