June 8, 2021 Accelerating Circularity launches textiles trial
- Spent textile feedstocks: post-industrial, pre-consumer, and post-consumer
- Feedstock fibers: Cotton, polyester, and cotton-poly blends
- Recycling technologies: mechanical cotton, chemical cotton, mechanical polyester, chemical polyester
- Finished goods: t-shirts, denim, towels
Outdoor industry participation
“The multi-stakeholder collaboration enabled through the Accelerating Circularity’s textile-to-textile pilots will help support our team and industry to architect the system for end-to-end connectivity essential for circular commerce.”
Starting now, with design, planning, and engagement, the trials will unfold in phases over the course of two years. Companies that wish to be considered for participation in the trials, including logistics providers, collectors, sorters, preprocessors, recyclers, fiber producers, finished goods manufacturers, brands, retailers, traceability and assurance providers, testing labs, standards systems, and support services, can register via www.acceleratingcircularity.org/stakeholder-registry.
About Accelerating Circularity
Accelerating Circularity is a collaborative industry project developed to accelerate the textile industry’s move from linear to circular. It was founded in 2019 with a mission to establish systems that will use the embedded value and resources in existing textiles for new products, reducing the millions of tons of textile waste annually going into landfills and thereby supporting the reduction of the industry’s GHG emissions.
