While the industry awaits legislation to advance textile recycling, the circular actors continue to forge ahead. Worn Again Technologies and members including Renewcell and Lenzing are “committed to ...
Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...
Radici InNova's patented process uses selective dissolution technology to treat mixed textile waste and recover both its ...
Circ is building its first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling plant in France. Reju is doing the same in the Netherlands. Two decades since Teijin launched the first commercial chemical ...
Joe Whitten, Co-Founder and CEO of Apparel Impact, is on a mission—to focus on reuse, recycling, upcycling, and downcycling ...
The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...
Polyester textiles account for 2/3 of the global PET market of around 100 million tons. Only 13% of textile waste is currently recycled, and only 1% is recycled "fiber-to-fiber" 1,2 Carbios has ...
HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global sports company PUMA has today announced that it has scaled up its textile recycling innovation, RE:FIBRE, replacing recycled polyester with RE:FIBRE ...
In 2015, Denmark-based nonprofit Global Fashion Agenda estimated that 92 million tons of textile waste were generated worldwide annually, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, based in the United ...