Sustainability

Weaving A Circular Future For India’s Textile Waste

Textile Insights June 9, 2026

For decades, the textile industry has been a cornerstone of craftsmanship, employment and economic growth. Yet alongside this progress, textile waste has emerged as one of the sector’s most pressing environmental challenges. Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated

Sustainability

‘Recycling Was Always Last. Someone Moved It To The Front’

Textile Insights June 9, 2026

In this incisive and insightful article penned exclusively for Textile Insights, Mansi Bihani writes that the carbon footprint of recycling is not zero, it is simply lower than producing virgin material from scratch, which is a meaningful difference but not the same as being without cost. On World Environment Day, it is worth asking what […]

Corporates

ReFiber Launches Mumbai’s First Large-Scale Textile Waste Collection Initiative

Textile Insights June 8, 2026

ReFiber, powered by OterRi, has launched what it calls Mumbai’s first large-scale post-consumer textile waste collection and circular recovery initiative, aiming to divert discarded garments from landfills and bring them back into the value chain. Launched on World Environment Day at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai, the initiative brings together industry and

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Delhi Government To Launch Clothing Recycling Programme At 10 Metro Stations

Textile Insights May 27, 2026

The Delhi government will soon roll out a clothing recycling programme across 10 major Delhi Metro stations, enabling commuters to deposit old and unused garments for recycling and reuse, according to an official release. The initiative, being launched under the direction of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, will involve the installation of dedicated collection boxes by […]

Sustainability

Fashion for Good Launches Project FAE To Scale-Up Textile Recycling In Europe

Textile Insights May 10, 2026

As the textile industry accelerates its transition toward circularity, one critical bottleneck continues to hold back progress feedstock. Addressing this challenge head-on, Fashion for Good has launched Project FAE (Feedstock Activation Europe), a collaborative initiative aimed at building the sorting and pre-processing infrastructure needed to unlock post-consumer textile

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TU Wien Scientists Develop Breakthrough Method To Fully Recycle Blended Textiles

Textile Insights November 27, 2025

In a major advance for textile sustainability, researchers at TU Wien have unveiled a novel recycling method capable of almost perfectly recovering both cotton and polyester from blended fabrics, one of the industry’s most challenging waste streams. The innovation comes at a time when global textile production has surged to more than 100 million tonnes […]

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From Waste To Worth: How The UK Plans To Turn 744,000 Tonnes Of Textile Trash Into A Circular Economy

Textile Insights September 9, 2025

Every year, the United Kingdom discards nearly three-quarters of a million tonnes of textiles that can no longer be reworn. These clothes and fabrics, often tossed into household bins or collection banks, end up incinerated, landfilled, or shipped abroad. Less than one per cent of them ever find their way back into new fibres. Now, […]

Corporates

Circ Secures New Investment To Scale Textile-To-Textile Recycling

Textile Insights March 13, 2025

Circ, the US-based pioneer in textile-to-textile recycling, has closed its latest funding round led by Taranis through its Carbon Ventures fund, with continued support from existing strategic investors Inditex and Avery Dennison. This funding builds on Circ’s technical and commercial progress over the past 18 months and will support the scaling of its groundbreaking

Sustainability

HUGO BOSS Introduces Eightyards For Textile Upcycling

Textile Insights February 27, 2025

Eightyards GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the HUGO BOSS Group, officially commenced business operations. Based in Metzingen, the new venture enables HUGO BOSS to repurpose its surplus materials, giving them a new lease of life. Eightyards operates across three core business areas: reselling, reusing, and re-, up-, and downcycling the Group’s surplus textiles for

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Driving Sustainability: NISTI-IIT Delhi Conference On Textiles

Textile Insights December 10, 2024

The much-anticipated NISTI-IIT Delhi Conference on Sustainability in Textiles is set to take place on 14th December 2024 at IIT Delhi, uniting thought leaders, researchers, and innovators. Organized by NISTI Regd in collaboration with the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi, this flagship event is set to redefine the roadmap for sustainability in […]