H&M- and Vargas-backed polyester recycler Syre is aiming to bring its first commercial production plant online by the middle of next year. The company launched …
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Europe’s Textile Recycling Sector Warns of ‘Unprecedented Crisis’
Europe’s textile sorting and recycling sector is facing an “unprecedented crisis” that has pushed the industry to the brink of collapse, two major lobby groups …
California Governor Signs Textile Recycling Bill into Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a law that will make brands responsible for ensuring old clothes are established at the end of …
California Set to Mandate Clothing Recycling as Wardrobe Waste Grows
Let’s say you bought a new pair of jeans and wore them for a few years before deciding it was time to part ways. You …
Why Renewcell’s Bankruptcy Might Be the Push Textile Recycling Needed
Stacy Flynn has spent a decade waiting for the fashion industry to commit to recycling old clothes. This week, she got tired of waiting. On …
H&M Places New Bet on the Future of Fashion Recycling
H&M Group is shifting its bet on the future of fashion recycling. The Swedish fast-fashion company has teamed up with green industry investor Vargas and …
AI, Outlets, Recycling: Can Luxury Solve Its Billion-Dollar Excess Inventory Problem?
On an industrial site near the French-Belgian border, high-end sneakers, handbags and ready-to-wear garments are routinely dismantled, shredded and granulated in preparation for recycling. None …
Renewcell Was Poised to Lead Fashion’s Recycling Revolution. How Did it Fail?
Late in December 2022, Swedish recycler Renewcell shipped the first batch of raw material from an industrial-scale plant it had built to transform textile waste …
Pale, porous and 3D-printed: inside the weird and wonderful quest to make compostable shoes | Recycling
The shoes may not immediately strike you as the future of mainstream fashion. Pale and porous, they resemble a cross between a beige Croc and …
Fashion Recycling Platform SuperCircle Raises $7 Million
Fashion recycling platform SuperCircle has raised $7 million in a pre-series A financing round. The reverse logistics business, which has developed a digital platform to …
‘The missing link’: is textile recycling the answer to fashion’s waste crisis? | Fashion
The sun is always shining in the Swedish seaside town of Sundsvall, according to the staff of Renewcell, the world’s first commercial-scale textile-to-textile recycling factory. …
Zimmerman May Be Sold, Design Competition Comes Back to NYFW, and Breakthrough in Polyester Recycling
Image courtesy of zimmerman.com Zimmerman, the very popular Australian women’s brand, is about to be sold once again. Or so fashion wagging tongues are claiming!! …
Lululemon Takes Minority Stake in Recycling Tech Company
Athleisure brand Lululemon has taken a minority stake in Samsara Eco, an Australian company that uses enzymes to recycle plastics like polyester and nylon into …
Textile-to-Textile Recycling Company Circ Closes $25 Million Investment
European retail giant Zalando, material science and digital labels maker Avery Dennison and outdoor and sportswear manufacturer Youngone participated in the funding round announced Wednesday, …
H&M and Remondis Form Textiles Recycling Venture
H&M, the world’s second biggest fashion retailer, said on Wednesday it had formed a joint venture with German recycling group Remondis to collect, sort and …
EU Sets Recycling, Reuse Targets to Cut Packaging Waste
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday new rules to reduce packaging waste through increased recycled content in plastic drinks bottles and targets for reuse of …