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Full Circle Textiles Project - Polyester has been established by Fashion for Good

Textile 10-12-2021 Hits: 3188

10 December 2021, Mumbai:

The Full Circle Textiles Project - Polyester was developed by Fashion for Good with the goal of validating and scaling viable polyester chemical recycling technologies, as well as encouraging finance and offtake commitments in the fashion sector.

The Full Circle Textiles Project - Polyester brings together a group of stakeholders, including brands, innovators, supply chain partners, and catalytic funders, to drive and scale disruptive innovation in the textiles sector.

"Textile recycling is a significant emphasis for Fashion for Good," Katrin Ley, Managing Director, stated. We can now turn our attention to applying these learnings and steps to scale to another critical area: textile-to-textile polyester recycling, thanks to the success of the first Full Circle Textiles Project and proof that a galvanized consortium of stakeholders from across the industry can truly shift the needle."

It's worth noting that polyester accounts for 52% of the worldwide fiber market. Because it is the most widely used fiber on the planet, it accounts for a major amount of the 73 percent of textiles that are landfilled or burnt each year.

A vast variety of Fashion for Good partners contributed their experience, financial assistance, and services to make the initiative, which was created and managed by Fashion for Good, feasible. Brand partners Adidas, BESTSELLER, C&A, PVH Corp., Target, and Zalando, as well as affiliate partners Arvind Limited, Fabrics Division of W. L. Gore & Associates, and Teijin Frontier, have just joined Fashion for Good as catalytic funders.

Fashion for Good has engaged promising innovators in polyester chemical recycling from across the world to participate in the project in order to get a clear picture of the solutions best positioned to handle the issues of recycling polyester textiles.

CuRe Technology, Garbo, gr3n, and PerPETual are among the companies involved in the 18-month initiative, which will produce chemically recycled polyester from post-consumer textile waste for use in fabric and garment manufacture.

Participating Fashion for Good brand and supply chain partners will evaluate and validate the innovator's output. The project's goal is to test the technologies and their scaling potential, which will lead to additional implementation/offtake agreements, which will boost chemical recycling in the sector and attract more financing.

The Full Circle Textiles Project – Polyester builds on the framework and lessons learned from the Full Circle Textiles Project, which investigated economically viable and scalable solutions for cellulosic chemical recycling and the production of new man-made cellulosic fibers and eventually garments from cotton and cotton-blend textile waste, which was launched in September 2020.

The Full Circle Textiles Project has achieved this goal, demonstrating the value of the consortium structure in scaling disruptive innovation in the sector, as well as the capacity of chemical recycling to promote circularity.

Circ, EVRNU, Infinited Fiber Company, and Renewcell, the four selected innovators, were able to prove their revolutionary technologies and create clothes to the quality criteria of brand partners PVH Corp. and Kering Group.

The project's next phase focuses on scaling these solutions, and it invites brands, innovators, and supply chain partners to participate in building long-term alliances, catalyzing financing for scaling, and using industry experience to further develop and apply these technologies.

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