Coats is scaling up its circular solution: Cooperation at the garment design stage is the way to go
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04 February 2022, Mumbai:
All stakeholders in the textile sector are concerned about sustainability. Coats, one of the most well-known industrial thread makers, is inviting industry brands, manufacturers, and recyclers to work on a new circularity idea that will make end-of-life garment recycling more convenient and cost-effective.
Coats earned $ 1.2 billion in sales in 2020, thanks to a staff of 17,000 workers spread across six continents.
The thread giant is introducing EcoCycle, a kind of water-soluble thread designed to make clothing disassembly easier. According to the firm, it is now trying to scale up its circular solution through cooperation at the garment design stage, according to a statement.
As more companies assume responsibility for the whole life cycle of their goods, it's critical that they incorporate the appropriate threads and applications from the beginning of the creative process.
"We are appealing for industry participants that want to meaningfully participate in end-of-life recycling to engage with us to incorporate it right at the beginning of the garment design," Sonya Manolova, Product Director, Apparel and Footwear, Coats, stated. Together, we can improve our present first-generation EcoCycle product to help our industry move closer to circularity."
It's worth noting that the textile industry consumes around 100 million tonnes of new fibers each year, and that nearly 90% of textile fibers end up in a waste stream — either incineration or landfill.
The fashion industry has not embraced recycling, owing to the fact that most clothing has components composed of a variety of materials and composites.
Although the disassembly process is tedious, labor-intensive, and expensive, many of the individual fibers are reused at the end of their useful lives.
Approximately 25% of clothing is never worn, with freshly purchased clothes being stuffed into closets and forgotten about until they are finally tossed into the waste stream.
Coats has revolutionized an aspect of its core product offering with the introduction of EcoCycle, after decades of creating and producing threads to keep clothing together.
The new thread maintains its resilience throughout the life of the garment, whereas seams sewed with EcoCycle disintegrate when washed in an industrial machine at 95 degrees Celsius.
This allows the garment to be deconstructed easily and rapidly by simply pulling it apart, allowing the non-textile and textile components to be separated and recycled.
"As an industry, we need to reset the basics in order to guarantee supply chain circularity," said Andrew Morgan, Coats' Head of Sustainability. "Sustainable innovation flips the script on product creation by focusing on the end of life first, before figuring out how to make it."
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*Figures mentioned in the above article have been sourced from Apparel Resources article.
