The nonprofit commissioned environmental analyses of mechanically recycled cotton yarn, thermomechanically recycled polyester ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

Sweden-based recycler Syre says it will work with global engineering and machinery firm ABB to explore technologies for ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Manchester say they have developed a fusion enzyme that can help break down polyester fibers in blended textiles, a category of waste ...

At recycled fiber producer Unifi’s facility in Yadkinville, North Carolina, workers pile hundreds of discarded garments onto a massive conveyor belt. As the belt lurches forward, mounds of old ...

A study released by London-based Systemiq claims that Europe could reach a tipping point for textile recycling where recycling polyester through depolymerization becomes more competitive than ...

Japanese companies Itochu Corp., Teijin Limited and JGC Holdings Corp. have signed a joint agreement for the licensing of polyester chemical recycling technology to process discarded polyester textile ...

Circ is building its first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling plant in France. Reju is doing the same in the Netherlands. Two decades since Teijin launched the first commercial chemical ...

An H&M offshoot has a textile recycling plant in the works. This story first appeared in the Triangle Business Journal. An offshoot of apparel maker H&M has tapped North Carolina for a polyester ...

Substantial efforts are being made to advance recycling technologies, transforming discarded plastics into raw materials that can be reused. Chemical recycling emerges as a major frontier in this ...

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of ...