ReCycle Pro Single: Made in Germany – Bike Bag Made from Packaging Waste

• The first VAUDE bike bag made entirely from recycled primary materials
• Including a back panel made from German household packaging waste
• Major step towards a circular economy
• Perfect for everyday use
• Available for purchase from October 2021

With the ReCycle Pro Single bike bag, VAUDE is ushering in a new era: This bike bag is made entirely from recycled primary materials. The plastic back panel made from German packaging waste is a true innovation on the market.  

Climate protection has become an integral topic in our everyday lives – be it waste avoidance and recycling or relating to production sites and innovative production methods.  

VAUDE is therefore setting new standards when it comes to bike bags and opening doors to a sustainable and innovative product future with the new ReCycle Pro Single. There has never been so much recycled material in a bike bag: "The fabric used for our bike bags is now made from 100% recycled materials. The greatest innovation is that we can now also produce a back panel system from recycled materials," emphasizes Clément Affholder, Project Manager for Innovations at VAUDE. 

Future-oriented bike bag made from recycled waste 

Wishing to bring on board state-of-the-art know-how and extensive expertise in the circular economy field, VAUDE got together with Interseroh, a leading environmental services provider in the area of closing product, material and logistics circles, and APK, an innovative recycling technology company founded in 2008.  

Interseroh takes post-consumer waste that is thrown away in the yellow containers or yellow bags that Germany provides for recyclable waste and creates recycled plastic – which is used to produce the back panel of the bag. APK creates ultra-pure recyclates from the waste materials produced when manufacturing PA/PE multilayer films for packaging. These materials are used for the fastening hooks for the ReCycle Pro Single.

The bike bags are a first major step towards VAUDE’s climate objectives: "We are striving for climate neutrality and would like to produce our products predominantly from organic-based or recycled materials by 2024," says VAUDE CEO Antje von Dewitz. This is aligned to the principle of the circular economy: The use of renewable raw materials and recycled materials conserves fossil resources and significantly reduces CO₂ emissions in material production. 

With the ReCycle Pro Single, VAUDE has created a waterproof, robust and environmentally friendly bike bag for day-to-day use that includes the full five-year warranty. A clearly arranged main compartment with a folding cover, two zipped compartments and a removable shoulder strap are also features. The bag offers 18.5 liters of volume – plenty of space to store small purchases and office materials.  

Thanks to VAUDE’s Eco Finish technology, the ReCycle Pro Single is PFC- and PVC-free and made with climate-neutral manufacturing in Germany.