Fishing nets are mainly made from chemical fibers such as nylon and polyester to prevent rot as well as to ensure excellent strength and easy maintenance. Whereas common nylon fishing nets are ...

Unifi Inc., a recycled and synthetic yarns company based in Greensboro, North Carolina, has announced that Walmart has purchased the equivalent of 1 billion postconsumer plastic bottles worth of ...

Shein has developed a polyester recycling process designed to reduce the heavy use of virgin polyester in its clothing production, according to a press release last week. The process accepts both pre- ...

Re&Up and Puma will scale a circular solution converting textile waste into recycled polyester chips and cotton fibers, with the former at-the-ready to deploy the latter’s textile program in the USA.

Scientists in England are searching for a way to recycle polyester instead of throwing away the popular clothing material. Researchers say they’re on the verge of cracking the code, and plastic-eating ...

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry ...

Eastman and Interzero announced a long-term supply agreement for the former’s planned molecular recycling facility in Normandy, France. Germany’s Interzero Plastics Recycling, a leader in plastics ...

Alpek Polyester, an integrated business unit of Alpek, S.A.B. de C.V. and Charlotte, North Carolina-based DAK Americas LLC, has announced that it has joined The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, ...

Reju is going Dutch-literally. The Paris-based textile-to-textile recycling firm announced Tuesday that it has tapped Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard, the Netherlands, as the site of its first ...

TOKYO & SHAOXING, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teijin Limited announced today that in September it will establish Zhejiang Jiaren New Materials Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Jinggong Holding Group, in ...

The PUreTex project focuses on chemically recycling polyester waste textiles to recover the raw materials needed to ...