Green Chemistry Solutions with Recycled Exhausted Vegetable Oils: REVECOL®

Exhausted and waste vegetable oils are among the leading hazardous wastes that cause pollution of the seas, water resources, and the environment. The increase in vegetable oil usage in the consumption cycle makes these high-calorie waste oils to be an environmental problem.

When the exhausted vegetable oils are spilled into the water they damage the water system by covering the surface of the water.

The result: it prevents oxygen transfer between water and air and accelerates the depletion of oxygen in the water over time.

For this reason, vegetable waste oils that reach the sea, stream and lake harm birds, fishes, and other living creatures. In addition, it increases treatment costs by damages to the system in wastewater treatment plants.

Cleaning water from the oil is an expensive process than drinking water treatment. For this reason, the most sustainable and environmentally friendly way is to recycle vegetable-based waste oils before mixing them in nature and harming water resources.

Damages of exhausted vegetable oils to water resources:

1 kg of oil pollutes 1000 m2 of water surface.

1 kg of oil makes 1 million liters of water unsafe to drink.

The First GRS and RCS Certificated Eco-friendly Green Chemistry Solutions

The textile industry, which is focused on transformation and works for sustainable solutions, recycles waste vegetable oils and reuses them in green chemistry solutions.

The first GRS (Global Recycled Standard) and RCS (Recycled Blended Claim Standard) certificated green chemistry product REVECOL®, made of trans fats, gains an environmentally-friendly alternative to petrochemical products with its product range.

REVECOL® provides reducing petrochemicals and nature-friendly processes in dyeing and softening by recycling vegetable-based waste oils.

New Products from Özen with Environmental Solutions of REVECOL®

We, at Ozen, always focus on next-generation green chemistry solutions in our production processes. We added the products which we designed by using REVECOL® recycled vegetable oil-based finishing products in the dyeing and softening stages in our latest collection.

We, as a manufacturer, support recycling and circular economy, continue to follow innovations and add these practices to our production processes for sustainable fashion.

You can discover our NEW LIFE, TROPICAL, and NETTLE fabrics which we used REVECOL in dyeing, softening, and finishing processes, and explore more options on our products page.

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