Fulton Hogan is large infrastructure construction, roadworks, and aggregate supplier company in New Zealand, which is also active in wider AustraB.U.S.I.N.E. Fulton has recently joined hands with a sustainable start-up named “BlockTexx” to deal with textile waste, a growing issue in Australia, with most old clothing ending up in landfills, which can take hundreds of years to break down, releasing harmful carbon emissions along the way.
BlockTexx is a circular economy enterprise currently building Australia’s first textile resource recovery facility on the south side of Brisbane. The BlockTexx recycling facility will divert thousands of tonnes of unwanted textiles away from landfill each year, converting the fabrics into high-value raw materials for reuse while saving about 30kg of CO2e for every 1kg of material recycled. While still in its infancy, approximately 100kg of excess work shirts has been delivered to the BlockTexx facility as initial textile feedstock to help with early quality control process checks and laboratory testing and analysis.
BlockTexx owns proprietary technology that separates polyester and cotton materials such as clothes, sheets, and towels of any color or condition back into their high-value raw materials of P.E.T. and Cellulose for reuse as new products for all industries. The recovered P.E.T. is polymerized to create virgin-quality S.O.F.T. branded rPET plastic pellets and polyester fiber suitable for textiles, packaging, and building products.
The recovered cellulose is processed to create S.O.F.T. branded cellulose powder for use in many industries such as textile, pharmaceutical, and food. BlockTexx is leading a global movement toward a circular economy for our customers and production partners by developing planet-focused solutions that divert textile waste from landfill and into sustainable products.
