2023 "Firefighting Clothes Up Cycle Project!"

　City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau, in cooperation with Intersection Co., Ltd. (Intersection) and Mattrz Co., Ltd. (Matters), will upcycle discarded fire clothing into outdoor goods to contribute to the SDGs and encourage fire prevention. ※1 will be implemented.

※1 Upcycle means giving new value to products that are supposed to be discarded and regenerating them (creative reuse).

　In Fire Bureau, approximately 200 pieces of fire-fighting clothing (approximately 800 kg) are disposed of as industrial waste every year, so there were problems in terms of disposal costs and environmental issues.
　In response to these issues such as mass production, mass consumption, and waste disposal, from the perspective of the SDGs, we decided to implement this initiative from the perspective of an upcycle that adds new value and reuses it.

Intersection Co., Ltd.
　Room 503, Twin Building A, 30-3 Sarurakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
　Representative Director: Hiroto Takada
　In charge: Phone number Takada: 03-5784-2696
　Company HP: https://in-sec.com/ (external site)
　Concept Store “Sustainable Think.”: 2nd floor of Building Aka Renga Soko Building 2
　 https://sustainablethink.com/ (external site)

[Mattrz Co., Ltd.]
　8th floor of Meguro Higashiyama Building, 1-4-4 Higashiyama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
　Representative Director: Yoshiki Yokokawa
　In charge: Media Commerce Department Phone number Inoue: 03-6277-5935
　Company HP: https://mattrz.co.jp/ (external site)
　Outdoor web magazine "Kurashi-no": https://kurashi-no.jp/ (external site)