One of Spain’s main recycled cotton fibre producers, Recover and the Swedish textile sorting firm, Sysav, just lately introduced a brand new partnership settlement to tackle the rising drawback of textile waste and speed up circularity within the textiles business.
As a part of the settlement, Sysav will begin to provide post-consumer waste (PCW), made up of 95 per cent cotton, to Recover in 2022, with bigger volumes anticipated within the following years. The settlement kinds a part of Recover’s technique to spend money on long-term buying contracts worldwide to lockup waste provide and can assist scale its post-consumer waste recycling. The firm has set a goal of getting PCW symbolize greater than 40 per cent of its inputs by 2025, which might quantity to over 85,000 tonnes of used clothes.
Helene Smits, chief sustainability officer at Recover, stated “Recycling post-consumer garments at scale and with high quality is the holy grail and THE challenge to solve if we want to move to a circular textiles industry and sorting post-consumer textiles on composition and colour at scale is an essential enabler to achieve that. It has been a pleasure working together with Sysav in the past year to help optimise their technology and processes based on our needs and we are happy to now take the first step in achieving the ambitious targets Recover has set for PCW recycling.”
Recover and the Swedish textile sorting firm, Sysav, just lately introduced a brand new partnership settlement to tackle the rising drawback of textile waste and speed up circularity within the textiles business. Sysav will begin to provide post-consumer waste (PCW), made up of 95 per cent cotton, to Recover in 2022 with bigger volumes anticipated within the following years.
Stefan Poldrugac, enterprise developer at Sysav commented, “With the ReFab products we are in the process to set a new industry standard for postconsumer textiles. The partnership with high quality recycler Recover is a milestone in this endeavor. Our mutual exchange of technical expertise proves that close collaborations throughout the textile value chain is key in turning the textile waste problem into circular flows of sustainable raw material.”
By partnering collectively, the 2 corporations goal to take a step nearer to closing the loop on trend, while upholding top quality and sustainability requirements.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (HO)