Textile Recycling

If you are into innovative uses for cellulose-based textile waste obtained from upcycling cotton-polyester blended garments, then The Mills Fabrica Innovation Challenge is for you. Last date of application is 20 June 2025.

A breakthrough revolutionary thermoreversible adhesive technology that promises to make textile recycling significantly more scalable, reducing waste and improving sustainability in apparel manufacturing, is poised to transform the fashion industry.

A new research provides a solution to the mammoth problem of recycling textile waste — perhaps the first effective method for recycling both cotton and polyester components of polycotton with high efficiency.

In a significant step ahead towards 100% textile circularity, French green innovation start-up, Carbios, and its five fibre-to-fibre consortium partners have come up with the world’s first enzymatically recycled polyester garment made from textile waste to spin out 100% biorecycled fibres.

Polyester, the most widely used fibre worldwide, and a key pollutant to boot, poses many systemic and tech challenges when it comes to sorting, pre-processing and recycling, says a new study by nonprofit Accelerating Circularity.

Robots at a Danish company sort textile waste based on material composition and colour identification using near-infrared (NIR) sensors and cameras, a part of which is then converted into recycled fibres and yarns suitable for production of new garments.

A team of researcher's at Lund University in Sweden have devised a technique whereby viscose can be created from used cotton textiles. This new process can save a lot of forest resources, and is also rather inexpensive.

H&M Group has taken steps to scale textile-to-textile recycling. Textile as in polyester, promising a "lower impact on the planet.”

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have developed a tool that measures the amount of elastane present in a garment, paving the way for its segregation/removal from blended textiles, thus making a considerable number of textiles suitable for recycling.

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.