Using recycled materials enables us to decouple from virgin resources and we see recycling as an essential element both now and in the future.
We’re actively looking for alternatives and are testing, tracking and investing in innovation focused on textile-to-textile recycling of post-consumer garments, as this could be a breakthrough for the fashion industry.
To support the development of alternatives to polyester, we also joined Fashion for Good’s Full Circle Textiles Project for polyester. The project aims to scale promising chemical recycling options for polyester, as well as their Renewable Carbon Textiles Project, which prioritises PHA polymer fibres.
Our Innovation Lab joined the innovative ReSuit project – led by Danish Technological Institute. With ReSuit, we are working with various stakeholders in Denmark to help establish a textile industry that can facilitate the recycling of all textile waste. ReSuit is investigating how the textile industry can improve design processes and what technologies are best suited to recycling post-consumer textile waste.
Invest FWD has invested in Ambercycle, an American company specialising in polyester recycling. They have developed a pioneering process for used polyester textiles that separates and purifies post-consumer textile waste at the molecular level to produce regenerated materials that can be crafted into new garments.