Why Textile-to-Textile Recycling Requires ‘All Hands on Deck’
Jun 26, 2023
“Textile waste isn’t just a missed opportunity, an initiative that seeks to create a more circular fashion industry says, it’s also unnecessary.
Earlier this month, the Accelerating Circularity project—ACP for short—flaunted the first fruit of its commercial-scale textile-to-textile recycling trials in the United States: a 100 percent cotton T-shirt that it says represents ‘what is possible’ through a circular supply chain model.
ACP boasts some big guns: Gap Inc., Target, Nike, Unifi and The North Face owner VF Corp. are on its U.S. steering committee. Over in Europe, Amazon, Zara parent Inditex, Lenzing, Recover and Zalando are among those supervising efforts. The Walmart Foundation also gave the organization a $1.2 million grant in 2021.”