Café du Cycliste x FabBRICK

We are excited to announce FabBRICK as another partner in our drive for a sustainable future. Being installed at all our flagship stores, Paris-based FabBRICK provide recycling bins for all unrepairable, damaged or unwanted products. These items are then taken and compressed into material ‘bricks’ – and can then be used for building furniture and insulating our stores.

These are no ordinary bricks, chiselled from the land of earth and stone we walk upon. FabBrick are building blocks of change – continuing to construct a brighter future for responsible manufacturing and use of our precious resources. Happily, they also look really cool too.

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How can we reuse our technical clothing that is no longer fit to be worn and would otherwise be discarded? Some materials are very difficult to recycle or take a long time to biodegrade, but (and this is a big but) they can actually be used elsewhere. Not to fill the land that we excavated, but to create building materials for future generations.

FabBRICK is a beautiful and unique solution : compressing unwanted or unrepairable items into material bricks. These bricks are then used to furnish premises and insulate spaces thermally and acoustically. Indeed, they can be used to make furniture, even crafts for the water (still in development).

Already installed at our shop in Nice, we will be expanding our fleet of bins in the coming months for customers throughout Europe to discover and use.

1% for the Planet - Alexia Barrier

We spoke to our Caravan ambassador and professional sailor Alexia Barrier about her 4myplanet enterprise and how Café du Cycliste will be contributing to her future projects through 1% for the Planet.

1% FOR THE PLANET: CYCLOTROPE, CYCLING IN ALL ITS FORMS

A steady contribution to a cause that has become an absolute necessity in the sportswear industry, Café du Cycliste made a commitment at the start of the year to work alongside homegrown organisations.

1% – A POINT OF DIFFERENCE

All great achievements come from small beginnings: Rome wasn’t built in a day, they say, and the Planet certainly wasn’t either. 1% seems like a minor figure, a fleck of dust in the largeness of space and time, but we’d like to argue just 1% can make a major difference to the outcome, from here to eternity.

SMART SHELTER FOUNDATION

Smart Shelter Foundation operates in the poorest countries on the planet, covering more than a billion citizens who live in countries exposed to cataclysms and earthquakes, their credo is to ‘promote and improve natural building techniques, collaborate and share knowledge, everyone deserves a safe house.’