Made to be
Remade.

Biodegradable nitrile, engineered in Switzerland. Scroll to see how.

Same protection.
Different ending.

Cat III nitrile. EN 374, EN 455, ASTM D6319. The barrier you trust — engineered to disappear.

Material · Nature Gloves

Nitrile,
but listening.

An organic additive at sub-percent mass. Dormant in storage. Active only when buried.

Designed
to return.

Sealed LTE Bio-Box at the point of use. Same routine, same 30 seconds.

Bio-Box · Take-back

Out of the box,
back into the box.

Anaerobic digestion at our partner. The biogas feeds the next batch.

Nature Gloves.

Biologisch abbaubar. Recycled cardboard. Glove and pack both in the loop.

ASTM D5511 · 90 Days

90 days,
anaerobic.

Microscopy verified. End-of-life: methane, CO₂, humic carbon.

The path to circularity.

From soil. To product. To soil again.

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Worn for thirty seconds. Engineered to come back.

LTE biodegradable nitrile gloves — green and black colourways
Nature Gloves · by LTE GmbH
Lab · Clinical · Food · Aesthetic · Veterinary
/01 — Impact

Numbers, measured.

Pilot ran 16 May – 25 July 2024 at Zurich Airport with cleaning partner Vebego and airline partner SWISS. The first-year figures come from operating data.

588,000gloves
Deployed across the first 12 operating months (Apr 2024 – Mar 2025).
62,916kg CO₂
Reduced across production, transport and disposal. Measured at every step.
3,146trees
Equivalent annual CO₂ uptake — for context.
27,236L gasoline
Equivalent emissions avoided. Reporting available on signed request.
Pilot phase: 42,232 gloves · 4,096.5 kg CO₂ saved · 16 May – 25 Jul 2024 · Flughafen Zürich
/02 — The closed loop

From raw latex to soil.
And back to raw material.

Nature Gloves box, front
Front · Recycled cardboard
Nature Gloves box, top
Top · Return code
Nature Gloves box, side
Side · Cat III markings
  1. /01

    Engineer

    Cured nitrile with an embedded organic additive. Same Cat III protection, fundamentally different end-of-life chemistry.

  2. /02

    Deploy

    Recycled-cardboard packaging, delivered by electric vehicle across Switzerland. Each box carries instructions and a return code.

  3. /03

    Collect

    LTE Bio-Boxes consolidate spent gloves at the point of use — at the bench, the prep table, the gate.

  4. /04

    Recover

    Anaerobic digestion at our processing partner in Germany. Microscopy verifies the breakdown; ASTM D5511 governs the methodology.

  5. /05

    Re-feed

    The biogas produced returns to the supply chain — energy input for the next batch of gloves. Waste becomes the next raw material.

/03 — Founder & company

Built by one operator.

Portrait of Luca Tarqua, founder of LTE GmbH
Luca Tarqua Nürensdorf · ZH
I sell a glove that procurement can defend on price, on protection, and on what it does after the bin.
Luca Tarqua Founder & managing director
LTE GmbH Sole shareholder since 2023

Luca took full control of LTE GmbH in May 2023, consolidating a family-held trading business founded in 2016 — built around a single conviction: single-use PPE deserves a second life. The company runs out of Nürensdorf in the canton of Zürich, with logistics roots at Zurich Airport and a supply chain that goes from raw latex to spec-out lot delivery. The recovery system is his own, built in-house. The Vebego × SWISS pilot at ZRH was its first proof outside the lab.

Spec us against
your incumbent. We’ll send a box.

Office
Sunnerainstrasse 41
8309 Nürensdorf · CH
Direct
hello@lte.ch
Reg.
CHE-377.565.936
Founded 21.07.2016
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