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'Eradicating textile waste has environmental benefits'

20 Aug '20
2 min read
Pic: Worn Again Technologies
Pic: Worn Again Technologies

There are clear environmental benefits of eradicating textile waste using the Worn Again technology. The Worn Again textile recycling process recaptures raw materials and puts them back in  production supply chains, thereby maximising the replacement of virgin resources while diverting valuable textiles and PET plastics from landfill and incineration.
 
"With our vision to eradicate textile waste, there are clear environmental benefits, as we believe that our process will use far less energy, heat, water and emit less CO2 compared to current end-of-life disposal and the production of virgin materials," says Worn Again Technologies' CEO Keith Wiggins in an interview in the August edition of Fibre2Fashion.
 
While understanding the commercial drivers of the market, the UK-based company has been developing a cost competitive process, focused on minimising the capital and operational costs to build and run a Worn Again Technologies plant.
 
"We want to bring our solution to market as soon as possible to meet the growing demand and for this we have developed a Circular Technology Licensing model that will enable licensees to produce top quality and environmentally beneficial PET resin and cellulosic pulp at a competitive cost, to compete effectively in the production supply chain," Wiggins adds in the interview.
 
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