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Safilo x Without

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× Made Without
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Made Without × Safilo   /   A Collaboration

From Pune to your face.
A collection with a soul.

Eyewear has always been a story of craft. This collection is a story of where the craft begins - in a place most of the industry has never looked.

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In Partnership
Safilo
×
Made Without
A collaboration on what eyewear could be made of.
The manifesto

Nothing is impossible to recycle.
It's just rare that anyone tries.

"Have you ever wondered who is behind a pair of glasses? It's us at Safilo - and in this collection, the hands of those who collect the plastic that would otherwise be lost forever."
Safilo's sustainability vision
The people behind the material

This collection is born from the meeting of two worlds: Safilo's ninety years of Italian craftsmanship in eyewear, and Made Without®'s patented chemistry, which transforms plastic the industry has long considered impossible to recycle into a material of virgin-grade quality.

The plastic that becomes these frames was, until recently, considered worthless. Multi-layer flexible plastic - the kind that wraps a chip packet or a sachet of shampoo - is the single largest stream of unrecycled plastic on earth. Less than 1% of it is currently recycled anywhere in the world. The technology to do it well, at scale, did not exist.

Now it does. And every frame in this collection carries three things with it: its origin, the people who made it possible, and a verifiable promise. This is not a limited edition. It is the beginning of a new standard for transparency in eyewear.

The product

One frame.
Three engineered truths.

Made in VerdiFLX™ B75I - an engineering-grade recycled polyolefin, developed by Made Without® from flexible plastic waste that other recyclers cannot process.

Safilo × Made Without frame in matte black, front and three-quarter view
01  /  Recycled content

75% physical recycled, not mass-balance.

Most "recycled" eyewear materials are certified by mass balance - an accounting method, not a physical claim. VerdiFLX B75I is physically recycled: every gram comes from an actual chip packet, sachet, or wrapper collected in Pune.

02  /  Performance

Modulus 1200 MPa. Elongation 200%.

Stiffer than virgin TR90. More resilient than standard recycled materials. REACH and RoHS compliant. Designed for ten recycling cycles without loss of properties.

03  /  Footprint

-0.47 kg CO₂e per kg. Validated by Sphera.

Net-negative carbon at commercial scale. Compared to +1.8 kg CO₂e/kg for virgin polypropylene. Life-cycle assessment validated by Sphera, in accordance with ISO 14044.

Traceability

Every pair tells the truth.
Verifiably.

A unique QR code inside every frame leads to this digital product passport. Materials, people, timeline and impact - in the open, every pair.

Safilo × Made Without frame close-up
Digital Product Passport
BATCH VFX-PN-2026-04-T42
Frame production batch  ·  April 2026
Materials
Recycled MLP 75%
Virgin PP carrier 23%
Additives 2%
Feedstock: flexible plastic waste (chip packets, sachets, wrappers) collected in Pune, India .
Timeline
02 April 2026
Collection (Pune )
11 April 2026
Recycling at 120°C (Chakan )
18 April 2026
Extrusion & pelletisation
05 May 2026
Moulding & finishing (Padova )
Certifications
B-Corp Certified (Made Without®, 2025)
LCA Sphera-validated (ISO 14044, 2025)
REACH SVHC clear (TUV India, Feb 2026)
GRS / RCS chain-of-custody (in process)
SA8000 social standard (Safilo supply chain)
-0.47 kg CO₂e per kg
of material
75% recycled
content
~5 chip packets
per pair
10× recycling
cycles
The journey

From the streets of Pune.
To the workshop of Padova.

Every kilogram of material in this collection follows the same path. Three steps in India, an ocean crossing, and the final stage in the hands of Safilo's master craftspeople in Italy.

Route from Pune to Padova
Collection point Recycling plant Safilo finishing
01  /  INDIA

Collected

From Pune's streets and the Mula-Mutha river, via Plastic Fischer's river-trap installation and the urban-poor collection network that Made Without® formalises with employment contracts, ESOPs, and health insurance.

02  /  INDIA

Transformed

At the Chakan MIDC facility, the patented chemo-mechanical reactor operates at 120°C - not the 500°C of pyrolysis - to recover the polymer without destroying it. The output meets virgin-industrial standard.

03  /  ITALY

Finished

In Padova, Safilo's master craftspeople take the recycled pellet and transform it into frames through injection moulding, polishing, and the 33 quality tests every pair undergoes before it is shipped.

The people behind every pair

Behind every pair,
hands with a story.

No material has a soul. People do. These three people made this collection possible - from collection to finishing - and Made Without® formalises them as partners, not as labour.

Rani Adsul
Pre-processing Lead

Rani Adsul

With Made Without® since 2023

For years she collected plastic for survival. Today she runs the line that sorts and cleans that same plastic - on a permanent contract, with ESOPs and health insurance. The team she leads is twelve strong.

Reactor Operator
Reactor Operator · 120°C Line

Sakhu Vitthal

Certified within 6 months of joining

Runs the patented chemo-mechanical reactor that separates polymer from metallisation. Trained on-site, certified within six months. The know-how is not outsourced - it is grown locally.

QC Lead at Safilo Padova
Finishing & QC

Maria Bellini

33 quality tests per pair

Verifies every batch before it leaves the plant. Each frame undergoes 33 quality tests - colour, weight, yield, UV stability - to meet Safilo's standard while honouring the recycled origin.

People. Product. Planet.

A collaboration
across three pillars.

This collection sits squarely inside Safilo's sustainability vision - SBTi-validated, Fashion Pact-signed. Here is how each pillar is served.

01
PERSONE
People
  • SA8000-aligned, audit-ready supply chain
  • Formalised waste-pickers: employment contracts, ESOPs, health insurance
  • 2-3× local fair wages, on permanent contracts
  • Lives changed per pair - CSDDD and UFLPA audit-ready
02
PRODOTTO
Product
  • VerdiFLX™ - 70 to 100% physical recycled, not mass-balance
  • GRS and RCS certification in process
  • LCA per batch, Sphera-validated, ISO 14044
  • Drop-in for existing moulding lines - no retooling
03
PIANETA
Planet
  • Net-negative carbon: -0.47 kg CO₂e/kg vs +1.8 for virgin
  • 120°C process, not the 500°C of pyrolysis
  • Aligns with your 70% Scope 1+2 and 25% Scope 3 SBTi targets
  • Ten recycling cycles - closed-loop ready
Sources: Safilo Group 2023 Non-Financial Information Statement; safilogroup.com/sustainability. Made Without® LCA validated by Sphera (2025), ISO 14044.

Discover more.
Verify every pair.

Sustainability isn't a story we tell. It's a story you can scan.

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