Tips and Insights

Tips and insights to help you make informed chemical management decisions


Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

How the waste hierarchy pyramid is applicable to textiles

The waste hierarchy pyramid is a is a set of 5 or 6 priorities for the efficient use of resources. It can be easily implemented by the textile industry

Textiles recycling

Comparing types of textiles recycling

choosing between chemical and mechanical textiles recycling depends on the type of fiber and whether the textile is blended or not.

recycled cotton

Mechanical recycling of textiles is fairly common!

Mechanical recycling is often used to recycle natural textiles. It can be used for synthetic textiles, but the waste stream is rarely textiles.

Textile sorting for recycling

Chemical recycling separates blended textiles!

Chemical recycling is a solution to recycle textile waste and create new textiles. Innovative companies have solutions to textiles being dumped in landfills

Recycled plastic

Do recycled fibers from plastic support a New Textiles Economy?

Recycled fibers from plastic bottles and fishing nets do not necessarily support the New Textiles Economy because textiles are not used as the waste source.

Highlights from the Safer Made annual meeting

Safer Made, a venture capital fund is investing in companies that make safer products and materials

Report card

Latest report card from Mind the Store ranks retailers on toxic chemicals

Mind the Store releases its latest scorecard that challenges large retailers to eliminate toxic chemicals in products and packaging.

Denim finishing with potassium permanganate

Top 3 takeaways from the AATCC conference

The AATCC conference was full of interesting presentations. Potassium permanganate may be regulated by the EU. Biodegradable polyester exists and zero discharge in denim is a reality

baled textile waste for fiber recycling

Fiber recycling using mechanical and chemical processes

Recycling is the act of taking waste and making it into a new material that has value, thereby preventing that waste from entering the landfill. Many different materials can, and SHOULD be recycled, including plastics, paper, metals etc.  Creating new fibers from textile waste closes the loop and supports the circular economy. Recycled fibers can be […]

Design principles

Nike shares its Circular Design Tool

The new Circular Design Tool by Nike can be mapped effortlessly to my New Textiles Economy blog series and shows great overlap by industry thought leaders.

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