Waste

In a world-first, textile waste could soon be crushed and pummelled to develop pigments that could be used as colouring polymers.

The Reet Aus mission is to minimise the ecological footprint of the fashion industry by applying industrial upcycling — producing clothing from pre-production leftover fabrics. texfash.com talks to the visionary designer to know more. 

Three players from the textile industry have forged a partnership to give France its first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste to produce recycled fibres for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.

Wood-based specialty fibres major Lenzing Group has launched the Lenzing Ecovero with Refibra technology which identifies the fibre at every stage of the supply chain, ensuring traceability and transparency, and empowering brands and retailers to enable consumers to make informed purchases.

In a bid to help transition the country to a circular economy by 2030 and Net Zero by 2050, Australia is funding a consortium to develop Seamless, a National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme that would act across the value chain, from clothing design to use, reuse, collection, and recycling.

The recent study 'Wealth in Waste: India’s Potential to Bring Textile Waste Back Into The Supply Chain' has a problem—that of sample size as well as sample selection. There is an imperative need to revisit the numbers, and bring out an updated/revised edition. A texfash.com analysis.

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya's INTEXTER department has conducted an analysis to calculate the share of fibres used in the clothes that are dumped in textile collection bins. The study uses an innovative methodology and is therefore more accurate than other approaches so far.

In a bid to promote innovation in textile recycling and use research findings to address practical issues, the Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has set up a collaborative textile research centre.

An investigation by the Unearthed team of Greenpeace and Daily Mail newspaper have unravelled a scandal in Cambodia wherein off-cuts from Cambodian clothing factories that supply leading western brands, including Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors, are being used to fuel brick-kilns—exposing bonded workers to toxic fumes.

A digital platform has been launched to refine the complex topic of textile waste into tangible actions to initiate change, containing comprehensive content backed by key industry insights and rigorous research.