Fashion for Good has launched a recycling project in the US.
The initiative is expected to provide a snapshot of textile waste composition generated in the United States.This effort is crucial to understanding and evaluating the business case for textile-to-textile recycling, ensuring that used textiles move to their best and highest end use.
The results of this 18-month project will inform decisions to unlock the necessary investments and actions to scale collection, sorting and recycling innovations. An extensive consumer survey will be conducted to map the journey a garment takes from closet to end of use including an analysis of post-consumer textiles using innovative, near-infrared spectroscopy to understand their composition.
Currently the demand for recycled fibers is growing, but access to the waste supply is limited. Key elements to supporting the growth of textile-to-textile recycling include understanding material composition, volume and location of used textiles as well as expanding access to textile recycling. With a scaled textile collection and sorting infrastructure, the industry could capture used textiles, sort them for the best and highest quality end use, and fulfill the increasing demand for both secondhand and recycled commodity feedstock.
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