All Recycling articles
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News briefsSamsara Eco and Nilit team up to build nylon 6.6 recycling facility
The two companies aim to deliver ”climate repair through infinite recycling.”
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News briefsCarbios partners with Nouvelle Fibres Textiles on PET biorecycling project
The French companies have joined forces to tackle the problem of polyester textile product waste.
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News briefsWoolmark launches certification for recycled wool
The Woolmark Certification Program now includes a Recycled Wool specification focusing on pre-consumer and post-consumer wool products reclaimed and processed into new yarn, knit or woven fabrics, apparel or footwear. Recycled Wool is a sub-brand of the Woolmark logo launched under a new RW-1 Specification. It indicates that a product ...
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ArticleManufacturer of Schwalbe tires massively expands recycling
One year after the introduction of the first Green Marathons bicycle tire – made from used tires, among other things – the German Schwalbe bicycle tire manufacturer Ralf Bohle GmbH announces that the majority of its Schwalbe tire range will be manufactured with recycled carbon black (rCB) with immediate effect. ...
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ArticleAltor buys the remaining assets of bankrupt Renewcell
The private equity company Altor Equity Partners has acquired the bankruptcy assets of the textile recycling company Renewcell for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, Altor is creating the new company Circulose, a name already closely associated with Renewcell. The Swedish textile recycling company was founded in 2012 ...
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News briefsTextile impact firm Syre raises $100m in funding round
Syre, the textile impact company launched in March by Vargas Holding and H&M Group, has secured a $100 million Series A funding round. The funding will be used to finance the construction of Syre’s new production plant in North Carolina, set to start operations later this year, as well as ...
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ArticleCarbios to open first PET biorecycling plant in France in 2026
Carbios, a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to redesign the life cycle of plastics and textiles, and Hündgen Entsorgungs GmbH & Co. KG, a German waste management expert in logistics, sorting services and recycling of recyclables from mixed waste, announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum ...
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News briefsScan-to-print circular footwear from Vivobarefoot
London-based footwear brand Vivobarefoot has launched the first commercially available limited edition Vivobiome barefoot shoes. Vivobiome is a scan-to-print system for circular footwear and a clear move away from complex and, according to Vivobarefoot, extremely wasteful analog manufacturing to a simpler, low-waste and connected system that is fit for a ...
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ArticleFashion for Good reveals $1.5bn potential for US fiber-to-fiber recycling
Fashion for Good, a platform for sustainable fashion innovation, has published the “Sorting for Circularity USA” report, which presents the key findings of the project. The report is the first of its kind in the US. It looks at consumer disposal behavior, the composition of textile waste ...
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News briefsDecathlon, Recyc’elit promote textile recycling and sustainability in the industry
Decathlon has reinforced its commitment to sustainability by partnering with Recyc’elit, a pioneering startup specializing in the recycling of complex textiles. Founded in Lyon, France, in 2020 by PhD scientists Karim and Raouf Medimagh, Recyc’elit has introduced a technology for separating materials such as polyester, elastane, and polyamide, enhancing the ...
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ArticlePatagonia forging ahead with recyclable wetsuits
In 2014 Patagonia changed the material in its wetsuits from neoprene, a synthetic derived from petroleum, to a natural rubber produced by Yulex – at least for about 85 percent of each wetsuit. Six years later, it built what it calls the Wetsuit Forge, which combined its design and repair ...
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ArticlePerformance textiles: next-generation materials
Sportswear Design Expert Alexa Dehmel introduces you to the next-generation materials you have to know.
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ArticleNilit’s new Sensil Flow enables circularity in nylon
Israel-based Nilit, the manufacturer of high-quality nylon 6.6 for apparel now celebrating its 50th anniversary and owner of the Sensil brand, has launched Sensil Flow, a new approach to the circularity of nylon 6.6 that enables the recycling of yarns, fabrics and ultimately garments to eliminate waste and further reduce ...
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ArticleSwedish researchers develop completely recycled viscose
Viscose textiles are typically made of biomass from the forest and fully recycled viscose is not available. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden claim they have now developed a technique to produce new viscose from worn-out cotton sheets. In Sweden, old textiles are usually burned to produce district heating. Extensive ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin presents first styles with recycled outer materials
When the textile industry talks about recycled materials, it usually refers to synthetic fiber yarns made from recycled plastic bottles. Jack Wolfskin also uses recycled polyester. However, the German outdoor company also wants to create a genuine circular system and has been working on producing new, functional items of clothing ...
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ArticleMajor progress in ski boot recycling; collaboration must be next
Source: Dalbello Dalbello LIFE ReSkiBoot Italian ski boot brand Dalbello celebrated the conclusion of its EU-funded LIFE ReSkiBoot project this February. The stated aim of this LIFE project was to produce and market 1,000 high-quality, competitive ski boots made from around 90 percent recycled secondary raw materials. ...
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News briefsPatagonia teams up with Eastman to address textile waste
Outdoor clothing brand Patagonia and global specialty materials firm Eastman teamed up to recycle around 3,600kg of pre- and post-consumer clothing waste, which Eastman processed through its molecular recycling technology. The process consists of breaking down unusable apparel from the outdoor brand into molecular building blocks that Eastman can use ...
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News briefsRenewcell expands its Circulose Supplier Setwork
Renewcell, the Swedish textile-to-textile recycler, has announced that 35 new members have joined its Circulose Supplier Network, now totaling 151 members, including spinners, weavers, textile mills, garment manufacturers and more. The latest cohort comprises suppliers with vertical operations (10), yarn spinners (16), garment manufacturers (4), and home and denim textile ...
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News briefsCarbios partners with De Smet on construction of PET biorecycling plant
Carbios, a French company specializing in biological recycling based on enzyme technologies, has announced that it is partnering with De Smet Engineers & Contractors on the construction of a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) biorecycling plant, described by Carbios as the first-of-its-kind in the world. The facility in Longlaville, in northeast France, ...
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News briefsLenzing partners with Recyc Leather and Ganni on new footwear materials
Lenzing Group, the Austrian supplier of wood-based specialty fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, has partnered with Recycle Leather to introduce Pélinova, an innovative material that fuses Tencel Lyocell fibers and recycled leather fibers. By teaming up with a Danish brand, a B Corp-certified company, this trio will bring ...
