Textile recycling company, Brightfiber Textiles plans to launch a new facility in Amsterdam next year. As per the Spin Off report, the factory will produce circular, sustainable and full-color fiber and yarn collections. The collections will be produced using the €1 million grant received by the company from the Dutch Ministry of I&W (Department of Circular Economy) for the purchase of a 2.5 million kg fiberizing line.

The production process will involve fiberizing the local post consumer material by color, mixed with colorful industrial waste streams and sustainable materials. The factory aims to launch this process on an industrial scale in partnership with Dutch company Wieland, says Ellen Mensink, Co-Founder, Brightfiber.

The factory has been part-financed by the Circular Economy department of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.

According to data provided by The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, currently less than 1 per cent of all brand collections are made of recycled materials with 25 per cent of them being made from PET bottles, rather than old clothes. Brightfiber's factory aims to create a fully circular process by recycling actual textiles. It also aims to save thousands of liters of water per item, as well as eliminate the need for polluting chemicals and dyes.