…To produce the material, which is also called Circulose, machines the size of a house shred old clothes in a former paper factory. The shreds are further broken down and bleached using chlorine and ozone. A lye solution dissolves zippers and buttons, and the plastic content of the raw material is removed. Other machines then press and dry the pulp into mats, which can be spun into fibers for the production of new textiles, and voila! A new jacket, blouse or pair of pants can be produced.
Some 60,000 tons of textile pulp can be produced in Sundsvall every year, enough for around 150 million new t-shirts. According to Circulose, no other company produces such material at scale from 100 percent textile waste using a closed-loop, chemical recycling process…
Source: Clothing Recycling Is Taking a Giant Leap Forward











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