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Monday, 13 December 2021

Fashion for Good has launched Full Circle Textiles Project – Polyester

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Fashion for Good has launched the Full Circle Textiles Project  Polyester, with the ambition to validate and scale promising technologies in polyester chemical recycling and to encourage financing and offtake commitments in the fashion industry.

The Full Circle Textiles Project  Polyester brings together a consortium of stakeholders including brands, innovators, supply chain partners and catalytic funders  a structure that has proven successful in driving and scaling disruptive innovation in the industry.

Katrin Ley, Managing Director, Fashion for Good, said “Textile recycling is a key focus for Fashion for Good. With the success of the first Full Circle Textiles Project, and proof that a galvanised consortium of stakeholders from across the industry can truly shift the needle, we can now turn our attention to applying these learnings and steps to scale to another critical area; textile-to-textile polyester recycling.”

It is worth mentioning here that polyester claims 52 per cent of the global fibre market. As the most common fibre in the world, it also represents a significant portion of the 73 per cent of textiles that are landfilled or incinerated annually.

The project, initiated and managed by Fashion for Good, is made possible by a large group of Fashion for Good partners, contributing their expertise, financial support and services. These include catalytic funder Laudes Foundation, brand partners adidas, BESTSELLER, C&A, PVH Corp., Target and Zalando, and affiliate partners Arvind Limited, Fabrics Division of W. L. Gore & Associates and Teijin Frontier, who have recently joined Fashion for Good.

To attain a clear idea of the innovations best positioned to address the challenges of recycling polyester textiles, Fashion for Good has enlisted promising innovators in polyester chemical recycling from around the world to participate in the project. These include CuRe Technology, Garbo, gr3n and PerPETual who over the course of the 18-month project will be producing chemically recycled polyester for eventual use in fabric and garment production from post-consumer textile waste.

The innovator output will be assessed and validated by participating Fashion for Good brand and supply chain partners.

The project aims to validate the technologies and the scaling potential, prompting further implementation/offtake agreements to drive chemical recycling in the industry and mobilise more funding into the technology.

The Full Circle Textiles Project  Polyester builds on the framework and lessons of the Full Circle Textiles Project, launched in September 2020, which focused on investigating economically viable and scalable solutions for cellulosic chemical recycling and to produce new man-made cellulosic fibres and eventual garments from cotton and cotton-blend textile waste. Having successfully accomplished this objective, the Full Circle Textiles Project further validates the benefit of the consortium structure in scaling disruptive innovation in the industry, and the capability of chemical recycling to accelerate circularity.

The four selected innovators, Circ, EVRNU, Infinited Fiber Company and Renewcell, were able to validate their disruptive technologies and produce garments for brand partners PVH Corp. and Kering Group to their quality specifications. The next phase of the project focuses on scaling these solutions and encourages brands, innovators and supply chain partners to collaborate in creating long-term partnerships, catalyse funding to enable scaling and leverage industry expertise to further develop and implement these technologies.

Source : https://in.apparelresources.com/
 
    
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