Case study · REZET Global × REZET Hub · Automotive · Argentina
Toyota: airbag & upholstery upcycling.
REZET Global did the upcycling. REZET Hub worked alongside them on the metrics, so Toyota could share its impact with a record behind every figure.
Proof
What others see as waste, design sees as potential.
Toyota invested in transforming the material rather than paying for its disposal, putting the budget into craftsmanship, durability and a product with genuine material value.
The material had more value left in it. With creativity, innovation and a trained eye, what others see as waste can be recognised for what it still has to offer, then redesigned around a new purpose without losing the story of where it came from.
Evidence
Making Impact Traceable, Transparent & Verifiable.
1,650 airbags, 1,980 m² of upholstery and textiles and 330 m of seat belt, transformed into 1,000 product sets.
REZET Global did the upcycling. REZET Hub worked alongside them on the metrics, so Toyota could share its impact with a record behind every figure.
Three certified streams
1,650 airbags, upholstery and seat belt collected across the supply chain, each arriving with its own certification history.
Units, area and length
Each stream recorded in its own unit — 1,980 m² and 330 m alongside the 1,650 units — because forcing three materials into one metric is how figures stop meaning anything.
Over-qualified on purpose
A textile engineered to restrain a body in a crash needs no reinforcement in a bag. The product is specified around a performance the material already had.
1,000 sets against three inputs
Output reconciled with all three recorded streams, so a premium product can be presented with its provenance attached rather than asserted.
Outcome
From safety textiles to a thousand premium sets.
Toyota
Material mix
From 1,650 recovered airbags, combined with automotive upholstery and seat belts from Toyota's supply chain, came 1,000 premium product sets. Production activated local manufacturing capacity and generated skilled employment, extending impact beyond material recovery. Made by 12 people in social impact workshops.
Why measure
An impact claim is only as strong as its record.
- Every figure in an impact report should trace back to what was actually recovered, weighed and made.
- When the metrics are built together with the operator, the report is ready to share with clients and sustainability teams.
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