The trio completed a semi-industrial trial of their "Rewind" PET process, demonstrating that polyester textile-to-textile ...

Several tens of tons of post-consumer, polyester-rich, European textile wastes, sorted and prepared in France, have been ...

Stella McCartney has partnered with recycling startup Protein Evolution Inc. (PEI) to advance sustainable fashion. With the collective goal of eliminating plastic waste from the fashion industry and ...

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

French biotech firm Carbios has teamed with recycling tech venture Tomra Textiles in an attempt to scale the circularity of polyester textiles. The duo signed an agreement to establish a new textile ...

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global sports company PUMA has today announced that it has scaled up its textile recycling innovation, RE:FIBRE, replacing recycled polyester with RE:FIBRE ...

Researchers found they could separate blended cotton and polyester fabric using enzymes -- nature's tools for speeding chemical reactions. Ultimately, they hope their findings will lead to a more ...

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 ...

The company sees textile production scrap and end-of-life textiles as increasingly important feedstock sources. Unifi's Textile Takeback program targets production scrap and end-of-life garments made ...

Scientists at the University of Portsmouth are to develop ‘plastic-eating’ enzymes that could help solve the ever-growing problem of waste polyester clothing. Polyester is the most widely-used ...

MADRID/LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Zara owner Inditex ITX.MC, the world's biggest clothing retailer, has agreed to invest in and buy recycled polyester from U.S. start-up Ambercycle, according to a ...

The environmental footprint of the apparel industry—which now churns out more than twice as much clothing as it did in 2000—keeps growing. The industry uses around a fifth of the world’s plastic. It’s ...