Today, I am here with Mr.
Fatih Konukoglu, chairman of RE&UP Recycling
Technologies.
Mr. Fatih
Konukoglu, welcome.
We are in New York for the Climate Week.
I know you have joined several meetings so far.
What are your key observations?
Thank you very much, Asli.
It has been a busy week.
We started fast and we've been to nice meetings.
We learned a lot, we communicate, and we gathered
with many other colleagues together here.
And I mean, there's been a lot of different topics, of course,
but the most important topic for me was the, I mean, making
inaction in this climate change and the cost of inaction is too big.
So, we need to act.
And that's what is the summary for me.
And as globally, we must act a little bit faster, and as
RE&UP, we are doing our best to make this happen.
Exactly.
And as RE&UP Recycling Technologies, you are already
acting, you are creating impact, and you are increasing your scale.
You met several people about this topic as well.
How is that working on RE&UP's side?
What are you up to in the coming years?
When we talk with our colleagues in, I mean, with the community
that are interested in textile and textile recycling, they all
admire what we have done up to now.
Of course, it's been becoming an impact-making facility as well,
which is one of the major capacities today in the world in
recycling textile-to-textile area.
We've been getting a lot of good comments, and it was nice to
hear those words from some of those top companies, CEOs,
and managers.
I was witness to a few of your conversations.
I think the scale that RE&UP has already is getting a lot of
interest from the players that we have met so far because
textile waste has already been a big problem of the universe. And
having technology that is able to solve it with a big scale, I
think that was one of the key things that got interest from
the people that we have met.
So, congratulations on that for RE&UP.
Thank you.
And RE&UP is also making this journey to do this in a
global action, building different facilities in
different areas.
This will give us a good impact.
And, as again, we need to collaborate together.
It's a big, I mean, the amounts that we are talking are huge.
So, we need to work with colleagues, with brands, with, I
mean, we need to have support from many angles. And if we
collaborate all together, we can make this happen.
And that's where we need our partners, supporters, to build
this all together because it's a journey that we go all together.
You're right.
One of the panels, you remember, was about innovation,
collaboration, and acceleration.
So as RE&UP, you have already innovated, you are
already collaborating with several players.
So it's now time for accelerating RE&UP's impact
on the world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you for your time.