Sustainability

Textile-To-Textile Recycling Hits Cost, Infrastructure Roadblocks Despite Tech Gains

Textile Insights October 8, 2026

Textile-to-textile recycling is making rapid technological progress, but high costs, limited availability of suitable waste and inadequate infrastructure continue to keep the industry from achieving commercial scale, according to a new report by Textiles Intelligence. The 19-page report,

Sustainability

Canopy Report Tracks Progress In Next-Gen Fibre Adoption

Textile Insights September 24, 2026

Environmental organisation Canopy has released its Hot Button Progress Report 2026, highlighting continued progress among man-made cellulosic fibre (MMCF) producers while pointing to the need for greater adoption of alternative, non-forest feedstocks. The 2026 update follows the 10th edition of Canopy’s Hot Button Report released last year. The organisation said the

Special Report

Future Looms, Second-Life Fibres

Textile Insights August 9, 2026

Reimagining Handloom for AI-Enabled Technical Textiles By Rony Banerjee  I returned from Bharat Tex 2026 with optimism, but also with a familiar discomfort. Everywhere there was confidence. Technical textiles, sustainability, AI, circularity, traceability, ESG, exports, global markets. All the right words were there. India looked ready to speak the language of the future

Sustainability

HKRITA Signs Mou With Jeanologia And Looptworks To Scale Circular Textile Recycling

Textile Insights July 7, 2026

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Spanish textile technology company Jeanologia and US-based textile recycler Looptworks to establish the Green Machine Circular Textile Ecosystem, a collaborative initiative aimed at accelerating large-scale recycling of blended textiles. The

Economy

Tipping The Scale: How Mass Balance Is Rewiring Textile Recycling

Textile Insights May 10, 2026

The textile industry is standing at a turning point. Built on speed, scale and global integration, it has delivered growth which few sectors can claim, but at a cost that is now impossible to ignore. Every year, an estimated 90 to 110 million tonnes of textile waste is either landfilled or incinerated, exposing a system […]