The recycling industry has long tried to solve the problem of recycling textile waste back into fibers. Now JALAS has managed to recycle the uppers of safety shoes back into usable textile fiber. This is a unique development in sustainable innovation. In cooperation with Rester Oy, a Finnish company providing textile recycling solutions, we decided to do a pilot experiment, in which we collected production waste from our factory in Finland, as well as surplus fabrics, to be recycled at the Rester facility. The goal of the experiment was to determine if the uppers of used safety footwear could be recycled back into textile fiber.