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Recycled fibers: the vital data for quality and profitability as Uster’s new recycling opening index guides spinners to the perfect blend

Recycling
Switzerland, 9th of June 2026 – Uster AFIS 6 now offers the key data for better decisions when...

California textile EPR deadline forces brands to register by July 1

Recycling
The first U.S. textile EPR law is moving from policy signal to compliance obligation, with apparel and home-textile producers...

Nike’s 2026 world cup kits expose the hard limits of circular polyester

Environment
The uniforms are a technical milestone for textile-to-textile recycling, but they also show why circular fashion cannot be solved...

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...

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...

Fashion Pact and Fashion for Good launch collective to scale textile-to-textile fibres

Fibres
The Circular Fibre Collective aims to turn scattered brand commitments into coordinated demand, financing and practical adoption tools for...

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...

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...

Specim launches AI-Powered hyperspectral system for textile identification and sorting

Sustainability
The new platform targets one of textile recycling’s hardest problems: identifying blends, elastane and impurities accurately enough for automated...

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...

China’s AI textile sorter points to a new bottleneck fix in recycling

Technology
Fastsort-Textile does not solve textile waste on its own, but it tackles one of the industry’s hardest operational problems:...

Recycled cotton in denim is holding up, but caution still rules

Denim
Circular denim is proving more resilient than other innovations, though quality limits and weak market sentiment are keeping ambitions...

Renasens raises €10m to test whether textile recycling can finally handle blended waste

Recycling
The Swedish startup’s significance lies less in the fundraise itself than in its attempt to solve the hardest commercial...

Bangladesh’s circularity pilot shows sorting, not technology, is the real bottleneck

Recycling
The pilot’s clearest lesson is that textile recycling in Bangladesh will not scale until waste is segregated, traced and...

Europe’s textile recycling will not scale without a market intervention

Recycling
Europe can build a textile-to-textile recycling industry, but only if policymakers and brands help create the economic conditions for...
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