Recycling

And now used diapers from households and institutions will be recycled into litter for your pet cat, and justifiably so it has won the RISE Innovation Award. A texfash.com report.

An ‘Industry-Aligned Action Plan’ explores how fashion brands and retailers can leverage Digital ID technology to establish circular services in every product they manufacture and profitably scale up fashion’s circular economy.

A report from the Sorting for Circularity Europe project says that as much as 74%—a total of 494,000 tonnes—of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. texfash.com reports.

The Green Machine of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has won an ITMF Award for Sustainability and Innovation. Through separation of the blended textile, Green Machine recovers PET fibre for re-spinning, even as it converts cotton fibre into cellulosic powder for a number of uses.

Innovation Fund Denmark has granted DKK 106.5 million to a mission-driven partnership, which must ensure a circular economy for plastics and textiles in Denmark until 2050. The 92 partners must deliver on one out of four national missions that must contribute to the green transition.

The circular fashion company Circ has announced over $30 million in Series B funding backed by the Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) with additional investment from Inditex, Milliken & Company, Lansdowne Partners and Temasek.