• The Lezprit Réquipe associative recycling center, created in Montpellier during the summer of 2020, specializes in the refurbishment of second-hand sports items.

  • In the 300 m2 workshop that they have taken up close to the Lycée Jean-Mermoz, the team "sorts, tests, cleans, regreases, sews, repairs, etc."

    »Equipment recovered from individuals, clubs, communities or sports shops.

  • The equipment is then intended to be resold at “attractive prices”.

Old ice skates, an undersized wetsuit or a crooked tennis racket lying around in your garage? Are you about to put a broken skateboard, worn out cleats or a holey basketball hoop in the landfill? It interests Lezprit Réquipe. This recycling center, created in Montpellier (Hérault) during the summer of 2020, is specialized in the restoration of second-hand sports articles. This Tuesday, the city council approved the payment of a subsidy of 30,000 euros to support the development of the association.

The structure calculated, from a study by Ademe (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), that around 3,700 tonnes of sports articles were thrown away each year in the Hérault.

With the consequences that we imagine on the environment.

"Sport is no exception to the rule, compared to all other sectors of the economy," says Kévin Blanchard, who founded this recycling center with Sandy Hinzelin.

The manufacturers have been on a logic, for a very long time, which consists in selling new, and reselling new, to make their model work.

And that had the consequence of arousing the need.

A need that is not always necessary.

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"Sometimes it's simple repairs"

So instead of trying to patch up worn out boxing gloves or shin guards with loose elastic, we tend to buy brand new ones. “While it could have a second life, notes Kévin Blanchard. Especially since it is sometimes simple repairs. Lezprit Réquipe thus collects donations of equipment that they no longer use from individuals, sports shops, communities, tourism professionals or clubs. This can be small accessories, but also some larger ones, such as handball cages or a volleyball net.

The recycling center is also appealing for donations from families, whose children have grown up, and snowshoes or crampons have become too small and are lying around in the attic. "Do we want to waste time selling them for 5 or 10 euros, when families might be interested?" "Asks Kévin Blanchard.

In the 300 m2 workshop that they have taken up close to the Lycée Jean-Mermoz, the team "sorts, tests, cleans, regreases, sews, repairs, etc."

»The recovered material, continues the creator of the structure, before« putting it back in the circuit, to give it a second life ».

Once upgraded, the accessories are resold, "at attractive prices, to people who have difficulty in equipping themselves, but also to all those who feel concerned by the ecological transition", during events or in the boutique. the structure.

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  • Languedoc-Roussillon

  • Waste

  • Environment

  • Planet

  • Recycling

  • Montpellier

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