Moral Fiber wants to revolutionize fashion by recycling polyester to create a sustainable fiber that can be reused eternally. The company has developed a three-step chemical process that can extract polyester from mixed blend materials to create a new yarn, billed as the world’s first textile product made entirely from old clothing. The equipment needed for this transformation can fit into a small shipping container, making it easy to deploy.
The process involves taking a mixed material, which has some cotton and polyester, and extracting the polyester at the molecular level to produce a new yarn. The leftover material is incinerated to power the pilot plant but the final box could also be powered by solar panels placed on the roof. The process requires around 50 amps of power at peak consumption.
The technology can extract polyester from any blended material and will be suitable for recycling other plastics. As of now it starts with fabric but it can process packaging, bottles, containers, films, multilayer packaging. The company sees this box as the box that is tailor-made for textiles but in the future wants to make a box for packaging, a box for carpets and for all sorts of different materials.
