As per a Textile Focus report, Fashion for Good has initiated ‘Full Circle Textiles Project: Scaling Innovations in Cellulosic Recycling’ a first-of-its-kind consortium project. It focuses on cellulosic fibers and aims to validate and eventually scale promising technologies in chemical recycling from a select group of innovators to tackle these issues. Leading global organizations Laudes Foundation, Birla Cellulose, Kering, PVH Corp and Target have joined the project to explore the disruptive solutions and create new fibers and garments from used clothing and ultimately drive industry-wide adoption.

The project’s aims is to investigate economically viable and scalable solutions for cellulosic chemical recycling to enable a closed loop system converting textile waste – of cotton and cotton-blend materials, to produce new man-made cellulosic fibers.

Over 18-month period, project partners will collaborate with innovators, Evrnu, Infinited Fiber Company, Phoenxt, Renewcell and Tyton BioSciences, to validate the potential of their technologies in this still nascent market. The recycled content produced by four of these innovators will be converted at Birla Cellulose’s state of the art pilot plants to produce high quality cellulosic fibers.