The textile industry accounts for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions ₁, from the 92 million tons of textile waste produced every year ₂. Nonetheless 87% of material used to make clothing ends up in landfill – one truck every second! ₃
Sources: 
(1) European Parliament: 
(2) The environmental price of fast fashion, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, April 2020 & TheRoundup.org.
(3) Ellen MacArthur Foundation. 

Less than 1% of clothes are recycled into new garments ₃ due to complexity of textile waste and a lack of scalable recycling solutions. The massive resource waste must stop and EU directive 2018/851 mandates separate collection and recycling of textile waste by 2025 – prohibiting incineration and landfill and prompting a focus on textile-to-textile recycling. Compliance becomes paramount for industry players, aligning business practices with environmental responsibility

Current recycling methods lacks product quality and scalability. Mechanical recycling poses durability issues, while chemical recycling encounters challenges in handling diverse chemical substances and blends of natural and synthetic fibres in textiles. Textiles also have a high chemical content (dyes, finishing chemicals, PFAS, etc.) that must be removed and neutralized without damaging the fiber materials (polyester, cotton, etc.).

While some recycling technologies have entered the market, they face limitations in handling textile blends of cotton and polyester. Our closest competitors are those who can process polyester-cotton blends. All of these either struggle with elastane and/or dye removal, or they rely on a method for destroying either the cotton or polyester fraction to save the other – meaning that a lot of material is lost. This is all challenges that our technology can overcome. Our technology stands out by preserving both natural and synthetic components in textiles, enabling a more efficient and sustainable process.