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How Can Textile-to-Textile Recyclers Solve the Problem of Collection and Sorting?
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How Can Textile-to-Textile Recyclers Solve the Problem of Collection and Sorting?

WWD·Jennifer Bringle·28 days ago
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While textile-to- textile recycling using post-industrial waste has grown in recent years, the process of converting post-consumer garments into new fibers hasn’t quite gotten off the ground in the same way. Part of the reason for that is the lack of large-scale collecting and sorting infrastructure to provide post-consumer feedstock for recycling. That problem took center stage at the recent Textiles Recycling Expo, held last week in Charlotte, N.C. Stakeholders from Goodwill , textile recycling nonprofit Fabscrap, reverse logistics platform SuperCircle and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation gathered during the event to discuss the challenges of post-consumer textile collection and sorting. Over the past few years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has focused on supporting business models that promote textile circularity at scale.…

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