Abstract: A machine for recycling quilts includes an infeed station, configured to receive as input a quilt consisting of a plurality of layers joined by stitching, a heating station, including heating means configured to increase the temperature of the stitching to a change of state or softening temperature of a heat-sensitive sewing thread, a separating station, comprising traction means, acting on the plurality of layers for moving them in respective diverging directions.

Abstract: Described is a recyclable quilt including an upper layer, a lower layer, a padding interposed between the two layers and a stitching which passes through the two upper and lower layers for a mutual joining together. The stitching comprises at least one heat-sensitive sewing thread which has a temperature of change of state or softening which is lower than the temperatures of degradation of the above-mentioned layers and of the padding, in such a way that a change of state or softening of the heat-sensitive sewing thread causes the break-up of the stitching.