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Post-Consumer textile recycling still faces its hardest bottleneck: sorting

Recycling
At Textiles Recycling Expo USA, industry speakers warned that textile-to-textile recycling cannot scale until collection, sorting standards and downstream...

Denim moves towards sustainability: 66% of finishing processes now classified as low impact

Denim
The denim industry continues to make measurable progress on its sustainability journey, according to the second annual Denim...

LSKD signs 10-Year Samsara Eco deal to bring recycled nylon 6.6 into activewear

Fibres
The agreement gives the Australian activewear brand a long-term route into regenerated performance fibres, with commercial supply expected from...

CHT Group’s two new shades expand the BEZAKTIV S-W range

Chemicals
BEZAKTIV Fuchsia S-W and BEZAKTIV Midnight Blue S-W combine design flexibility with high process reliability. With BEZAKTIV Fuchsia S-W and...

Levi’s backs regenerative cotton push in Pakistan’s Punjab belt

Cotton
The three-year initiative moves cotton sustainability from farm-level compliance toward landscape restoration, water productivity and farmer resilience. Levi Strauss &...

trinamiX expands mobile NIR for textile and footwear recycling

Environment
The new application enables on-site identification of textile blends and shoe components, giving manufacturers and recyclers faster material data...

GOTS-Certified facilities rise 15% as textile due diligence tightens

Sustainability
The growth of GOTS certification shows how organic textile standards are becoming compliance infrastructure for brands and suppliers, not...

Bezos Earth Fund puts $34m behind next-generation fibres, but scaling remains the real test

Fibres
The new grants push fashion material innovation further into the mainstream, yet the harder challenge is turning promising lab...

India’s textile waste market could reach $3.5 Billion by 2030

Sustainability
New government-backed mapping shows India already recovers most textile waste, but future growth depends on formal recycling infrastructure, cluster-level...

The Lab reframes fashion sustainability around care, not just consumption

Sustainability
The biotech fashion-care brand’s new campaign argues that extending garment life must become part of fashion’s sustainability agenda, alongside...

BB Engineering takes textile PET recycling message to PRSE 2026 with VacuFil and COBRA

Recycling
At Amsterdam’s Plastics Recycling Show Europe, the German machinery maker is positioning textile-to-textile PET recycling and lower-cost melt filtration...

Circulose and CTA push recycled lyocell closer to commercial scale

Recycling
The new agreement matters because it extends recycled cellulosic feedstock beyond viscose and into lyocell, a technically more demanding...

Digital product passports move from concept to compliance infrastructure

Sustainability
Forecasts point to explosive growth, but the real commercial story is that digital product passports are becoming a practical...

Saif Textile commissions 10MW solar plant to cut power costs and support margins

Sustainability
The move highlights how Pakistan’s spinning sector is increasingly turning to captive solar as a cost-control tool in a...

Fashion for Good targets Europe’s textile recycling bottleneck with new feedstock project

Sustainability
The initiative shifts the circularity debate away from recycling chemistry alone and toward the harder industrial challenge of delivering...

AAFA challenges California’s textile EPR rollout over Landbell PRO selection

Recycling
The dispute goes to the heart of how the first US textile EPR system will be governed: by a...

JEPLAN and Syre team up to speed polyester textile-to-textile recycling

Environment
The partnership is aimed at moving circular polyester from pilot-stage promise toward commercial reality, with multi-ton output targeted for...

Uniqlo and Aritzia are winning in apparel by making value feel premium

Apparel
In a weak consumer market, both retailers are showing that a clear value proposition, disciplined product strategy and ambitious...

Textile circularity still breaks down at the end of life, even for ‘sustainable’ clothes

Sustainability
Organic cotton, recycled polyester and cellulose-based fibers may lower impact at production, but once garments are discarded, most still...

Archroma makes SaigonTex debut to deepen its bet on Vietnam’s textile industry

Chemicals
The specialty chemicals group is using SaigonTex 2026 to position itself at the centre of Vietnam’s push for higher-performance,...
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