Sustainability

EU Calls For Tougher Rules To Reduce Textiles Waste

Textile Insights March 15, 2024

At a meeting of members of the European Parliament (MEP), they called for tougher EU rules to reduce textiles waste. MEPs adopted their first reading position on the proposed revision of the Waste Framework with 514 votes in favour, 20 against and 91 abstentions. They proposed higher binding

Sustainability

Eastman Partners Patagonia To Recycle Textile Waste

Textile Insights February 28, 2024

Eastman Chemical Company has partnered with US apparel brand Patagonia to address the challenge of recycling textile waste. The partnership will recycle 8,000 pounds of pre- and post-consumer clothing waste, which Eastman processes through its molecular recycling technology. “The process involves breaking down Patagonia’s unusable apparel into molecular building blocks

Sustainability

Czechoslovakia Introducing Separate Textile Waste Collection

Textile Insights December 5, 2023

The Czechoslovakia Ministry of Environment is planning to introduce mandatory separate textile waste collection starting from 2025. Speaking at a press conference, the Environment Minister Petr Hladík said that the aim is to increase the amount of textile waste that is reused or recycled. He also added that manufacturers of these textile and clothing will […]

Event

IBIA EXPO: Elevating The Turkish Mattress Industry To Global Heights

September 8, 2023

Contributing to the mattress production sector, which has a potential worth of 40 billion dollars and employs around 25 thousand people, the Turkish mattress industry holds the 14th position in the global production and export rankings. In the broader bed sub-industry sector in Turkey, production is expected to reach 4 billion dollars by the end […]

Tete-A-Tete

Perfect Recycling Machine Offers Longer Length Fibres

Textile Insights June 22, 2023

ITMA 2023 edition is mainly focusing on Sustainability and Circularity, with buyers too showing interest in seeing technologies with a focus on these two features. India based Perfect Engineering anticipating this interest, too promoted its textile waste recycling technology at its stall. “Perfect Engineering has been focusing since the last 15 years on textile waste […]

Special Report

T&A Sector – Towards Sustainable Growth

June 5, 2023

The textiles & apparel sector is aiming towards attaining circularity. Our correspondent takes stock of the initiatives being taken by the industry  The Textile and Apparel (T&A) sector is consciously trying to adopt circularity as the industry is aggressively looking to achieve its sustainability goals by bringing in multiple green practices across its value