Rossignol has won Union Sport & Cycle’s Ecosport Award in the circular-economy category for its Essentiel ski. A limited edition due out this autumn, the Essentiel is designed with “recyclable, natural, labeled and biosourced” materials, and few of them at that. The result, says the French brand, is more than 75 percent recyclable – ten times more so than its conventional skis.
Rossignol is pledging to have one-third of its production enter the circular economy by 2028. To this end, it has established a partnership with a firm called MTB, which has developed a new procedure to grind, sort and revalue materials, which will then be usable for the automotive industry, gardens and construction — and in time for new Rossignol products. It has designed a Recycling Box for skis, ski poles and ski shoes that should be operational by 2023.
The other Ecosport Award recipients were Tahe, Arkose, Internationaux de Tennis de Strasbourg and Decathlon.
