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A look at how Circ's recycling
technology works. Image: Circ
Cotton is far more expensive than
polyester, so manufacturers blend in
polyester to bring that price down.
About 65% of textile waste is a polycotton
blend.
" Right now, the only thing you can
do with that is to downcycle it, " says
Willoughby. " It goes into shoddy fibers
or insulation-and these are all great
uses, so it's still better than sending it
to a landfill or burning it. "
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ester stream and the cotton stream.
" We do that by our hydrothermal
technology process that liquefies the
polyester so the cotton can just be
spun out. We extract these two components,
and we can make new cotton
fibers or new polyester fibers out of
poly-cotton textile waste, " Willoughby
says. " We can use them over and over
again-that's true circularity without
impacting new raw materials. I have
calculated that, based on the amount
of waste that we have processed, we've
recycled the equivalent of 200,000
T-shirts this year alone. "
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As Circ's website notes: " We have
all the clothing we need to make all
the clothing we'll ever need. "
Not every fabric can be processed,
Willoughby says. " Not all coatings are
created equal. If you put in a really
high-gloss, acrylic-coated polyester,
it's going to come out as gunk. So, we
just filter that out of the process. The
unique thing about our process is we
can take anything from 0% polyester
to 100% polyester. "
At a recent energy summit,
Willoughby learned that the process
of producing cement contributes 5%
to greenhouse gas emissions. " That's
a huge problem, " she says, " but the
apparel industry contributes 10% to
greenhouse gas emissions. People don't
really realize how much that is. We
must do something to change that. "
Evrnu
Stacy Flynn had worked in the textile
industry for many years for such
companies as Eddie Bauer, Target
and DuPont, but in a 2015 TedX talk,

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