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Textile-to-Textile Recycling at Scale: Why Brands Must Collaborate
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Textile-to-Textile Recycling at Scale: Why Brands Must Collaborate

WWD·Jennifer Bringle·26 days ago
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Seen as something of a holy grail of circularity, textile-to- textile recycling remains a hot topic, as evidenced by multiple discussions on the subject at the recent Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C. Representatives from Accelerating Circularity, Target, Unifi , Reju and Elevate Textiles gathered to discuss how different entities in the supply chain can better work together to close the loop and make fiber-to-fiber recycling a more widely available solution. Sarah Coulter, Americas program director for Accelerating Circularity , said the key to unlocking this type of recycling at scale goes beyond the technology necessary to process textiles for reuse. “We all know the statistic that only one percent of the 90 million tons of textiles that we generate every year is getting recycled,” she said.…

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