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ou know the story. Textile waste is one of the largest
causes of pollution on the planet.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates
that Americans alone generate more than 15 million metric
tons of textile waste annually, which is about 104 pounds per
person per year. And we're not just talking about clothing.
Textile waste includes everything from canvas boat covers
and awnings to shade sails, sheets and hospital gowns.
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Only about 15% of that is collected for resale or recycling. The remaining
85% is directly discarded in landfills or incinerated. Landfill waste creates
methane which is over 20 times more damaging than CO2
and can leach toxic
chemicals and dyes into the groundwater and soil.
Sure, there are recycling centers across the country that will take old clothing
and fabrics, but only about 20% of textiles donated to these facilities are resold
domestically, as they take in far more donations than they can handle.
What happens to the rest? It is often incinerated or ends up in a landfill.
Otherwise, it gets ground up and used as stuffing or insulation or is turned
into cheap wipes. Sometimes it can be recycled into new clothing.
Major apparel brands such as Patagonia, H&M, Northface and others have
programs to reclaim their products for various uses. Madewell, for example,
has partnered with the Blue Jeans Go Green program and Habitat for
Humanity to recycle donated jeans into housing insulation.
But other companies are taking it a step further by not just recycling used
textiles but breaking them down into their components and turning them into
new fibers. These are then woven into new fabrics (which, at the end of their
lifecycle, can be processed again and again). That's true circularity. Here's a
look at three of those companies.
Infinited Fiber
Helsinki, Finland-based Infinited Fiber is a fashion and textile technology
company founded in 2016 to commercialize technologies that use waste
materials as feedstock. The company's premier product is Infinna thread
which it sends to either yarn or nonwovens producers.
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ABOVE: From fabric feedstock
(left), Circ recovers
cellulose (center), and turns
it into lyocell yarn (right).
Photo: Circ
AT LEFT: If they aren't
recycled, discarded textiles
are often incinerated or end
up in a landfill like this one.
Photo: Creative Commons

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