Category: clothing recycling

• REFIBERD

  

  This company utilized artificial intelligence (AI) and hyperspectral imaging to sort discarded textiles for recycling.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  June 24, 2024

  artificial intelligence, california, clothing recycling, recycle, textile waste sorting, textiles, USA, waste sorting

  recycling, textile recycling, textile waste sorting

• RECOVER BRANDS

  

  This company offers clothing and other accessories created from recycled bottles and recycled textile fibers, thereby creating a new material from post-consumer waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, fashion, new material, north carolina, plastic waste, plastic waste, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, take back, upcycling, used clothes

  clothing, post consumer textile waste, takeback

• EVRNU

  

  This company transforms post-consumer textile waste into a new raw material that can be used to create new textiles and clothes using their proprietary fiber technology, thereby reducing the amount of post-consumer waste ending up in landfill.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  Biodegradable, california, clothing, clothing recycling, designed to be remade easily at end of life, fashion, fiber separation, new material, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, USA

  Biodegradable, clothing recyclling, fiber separation, new material, nucycl, post-consumer textile waste

• RUBY MOON

  

  This company creates fashionable swimwear using a nylon fiber created using rescued fishing nets from the ocean.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  clothing recycling, compostable packaging, Europe, fishing nets, recycle, recycled nylon, social enterprise/b corp, take back, UK, upcycling

  compostable packaging, econyl, recycled nylon, takeback, upcycled fishing nets

• AMBERCYCLE

  

  This company regenerates end-of-life textiles into new virgin raw materials that can be reused in the clothing industry.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  california, clothing, clothing recycling, fiber separation, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, recycled polyester, textiles, USA, used clothes

  post consumer textile waste, recycled clothing, recycled cotton, recycled polyester

• FOR DAYS

  

  This fashion company specializes in recyclable fashion, and has created a take-back bag that allows customers to send back clothes in exchange for a customer discount.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  california, clothing, clothing recycling, digital platform, downcycling, recycle, Resale, take back, USA

  clothing recyclling, downcycling, recycled clothing, Resale, takeback

• LOOPTWORKS

  

  This company is recovering end-of-life textiles and bringing them back to the economy through circular solutions like recycling, upcycling and downcycling.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  B corp, clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, downcycling, oregon, pre-consumer textile, recycle, take back, textiles, upcycling, USA

  bcorp, downcycling, pre-consumer excess textiles, recycling, takeback, upcycling

• RESORTECS

  

  This company makes clothing disassembly and upcycling more feasible by creating a dissolvable thread that degrades in certain heat conditions.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  October 23, 2023

  belgium, clothing, clothing recycling, Europe, recycle, Repair, upcycling