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more disposable every year, roughly $100000000000.00 garments are produced and the majority of them end up in a landfill within a year. and that looks about as bleak as you'd expect. but new technologies could allow us to trim that number significant way. they turn our towering heaps of distorted textiles into useful green materials and help cut down on this insane waste. and how hard could it really be to recycle close? the good news for all the optimist out there, the fashion industry has a boundless room for improvement, especially since the rise of fast fashion, which we outlined in this report, roughly 10 percent of all global carbon emission stem from the textile industry. it's also incredibly resource intensive guzzling up roughly 90000000000 cubic meters, water. and really that's 4 percent of global fresh water usage. and

a lot more than water goes into producing our cloves. almost always these videos go through heavy, heavy, the chemical processes to make them the way they are today. whether it's finishing, whether it's dying, priyanka kind of collaborate with brands and producers to foster sustainable innovation in fashion. which is why it is mostly not even the nation, but does andre di biodegradable and it takes sometimes over 200 years for these materials to buy it as a degrade in the industrial. and that's a big problem because we produce a whole lot of textile waste. in the us, tex always has grown 80 percent since the year 2000 rachael to be run circular services group, which is the parts of industry and government and reaching sustainability goals is our fastest growing waste stream. we send over $30000000000.00 pounds of tech styles to landfill every year in the us alone. most of our old clothes end up in

landfills what doesn't, is frequently burned unsold stock, and donated old clothing are frequently shipped to the global south for resale, such as here. and actually i got to, we're 40 percent of what arrives is actually considered trash on arrival. to us, since more than 600000000 kilograms of used clothing abroad every year, largely to the rest of the americas or europe, exports more than 1500000000 kilos. with much of it ending up in africa waste in these regions, winds up being dumps burned or polluting oceans and waterways. tech style waste isn't just old well worn clothes that are ready for retirement. it also includes excess stock in the scrubs generated during production. less than one percent of this material that leased by come today, which means all of this is going somewhere. when we collect close, they're primarily going to be sorted for reuse. that's the highest value. um some

of those clothes may be down cycled and some insulation. some may be sold as wiper rags and then a small portion can be mechanically recycled. but mechanical recycling has its limitations. in 2024 mechanical recycling is the best option we have and note shopping close up and spinning them into new fibers is way better than landfills. it often means that degradation in quality. and it's rare that such materials can be recycled again. but that could change soon. there are a bunch of exciting new recycling companies, boasting new technology bottling for funding, and hoping to tailor a future for tech. so it's chemical, recycling or text. those are broken down to the molecular level and then rebuilt into a range of materials is being touted as a better solution. or some companies only recycle cotton. australia is blocked. techs can recycle blended material, treading waste and then chemically breaking down assignments and separating polyester from cellulose. a key natural or synthetic cotton polyester is converted

into pellets which can be used for textiles or us materials and constructions. well, cellulose is turned into clay that has use cases in textiles, agriculture and even packaging. the flexibility is intentional. i would never want to be beholden from my outtakes just to one brand, because i know how badly those those brands can behave. adrian jones, co founded block text in 2018. wait, that long takes to have that takes that can be useful to many robs and just be useful to want. i think that's been a real difference for us in the industry. everybody's is preoccupied with making more textiles. log texts recently announced an expansion of capacity to $10000.00 tons a year. berlin's refresh, global also emphasizes flexibility using a biotech approach. bacteria breaks down in sanitizers to style waste,

creating 3 raw materials, no, no cellulose. ethanol and sanitize textile polt, 3 refresh global's partners. these materials are used to make anything ranging from furniture to bike frames, to ethanol based cosmetics. refresh, global is a newer company, even many competitors and plans on developing a network of smaller facilities that can be developed quickly and flexibly with partners. that is a very different tact than sweden's renew cell. one of the world's biggest chemical textile recyclers. it was among the 1st a building, industrial scale, commercial text, all recycling facilities. here context i was shredded into a slurry, separated from any contaminants, and then dried into sheets of what they called circulars, circular, cellulose, which could replace virgin materials like cotton oil or wood in the production of new high quality textiles. going down to the molecular level, helps maintain quality and renew. sol said it's circular as can go through the

recycling process. 7 times there were limitations though, they could only recycle waste that's 95 percent. or if you're caught and meeting lots of what spilling land tells wasn't eligible in the 1st place. for new cells, recycling plant opened in 2022 with a capacity to recycle 60000 tons annually in room to expand the 120000. but there's a reason on using the past tense here, the renew cells and there shouldn't be the beacon in the industry that wasn't rewarded for new. so shocking me filed for bankruptcy in february 2024. just days before the announcement renew, so told dw, they were recycling far below capacity. concession brands were hesitant to fully commit to recycle materials. we could be producing a lot more. tricia kerry is renew sells chief commercial officer. many of the brands have goals set for circularity or reduction

traceability waterfalls. oh, you know, the variety. so it's, we are a solution to their goals. it's how quickly do they want to be able to achieve those renew. so partnered with brands like be biased, recycled production waste, and include circular as in their products h and then became a shareholder in 2017. it wasn't enough to make the plant profitable in its 1st year for new, so called their bankruptcy, a testament to the lack of leadership in necessary pace of change in the fashion industry. renew, sol, struggles highlight the challenges facing recyclers. it has been something that has shown up most of us work in us has been a relative fixed task. theresa, dominic research that sustainability management to use your existing business models in which most of fashion brands are messed it. they don't really have 40 initiatives night when you sell the did really while the degree 80 to

be able to, to make a while recycled materials mean less rely on sun water hungry cotton or oil based synthetics. they're currently more expensive. the challenges scale. the challenge is really getting it out into the world in a way and at a price point that can compete with version fibers. and so we're at a key inflection point. now. mechanical recycling has gained the limited foothold in the last decade in innovation on the chemical side means there are lots of companies raising the scale up, but it's even profitability before widespread adoption is clearly a challenge. maybe they'll say that we need to be more um support from the government them vomiting or are they still making these thanks word. wait, wait, no, not purely. uh, business base um disruption. they might not work and assist them the best i have the conditions we might,

you need to have those by it is through the 1st stages of the event event. it's not just about getting the recycling technology right. entire sprawling supply chains have to be adapted to accommodate new materials. waste needs to be seamlessly collected, sorted and processed in producers and consumers all need to get on board. all of this requires half the investment. an estimated 7000000000 euros would be needed to scale up recycling, hit 20 percent of text though waste in europe by 2030. and while there's plenty of vc cash moving in to be started, renew cell shows, a profit upsets passing industry won't recycle out of the kindness of its heart. there isn't enough push from the legislation side to force the industry to actually adopt these materials. so not the investigation did. why force thing, but if it's going to be more expensive material, if it's a transition with the houses up to supplies, the thing in nature with all the brands, they decided across the board,

it really does is a function of information. so have them having access to everything, which is not easily done until legislation usually takes it. o. d, u has mandated that by 2025 member countries begin collecting text always separately, just like they do with paper, metal, plastic, and glass, which should improve on the 22 percent of waste that's currently gathered. mirroring proposed legislation in the us b e was also building a rule that requires producers to pay for the processing of their tech style. and we just we have to ensure that these laws don't just charge the producers for one portion of that has little like just collection. it has to also facilitate the infrastructure for both reuse and recycling and the innovation around that. as it stands, recycling isn't profitable. state actors could also set the tone by adopting

targets themselves, recycling for recycling. so it gives the nice way to go broke really quickly. you know, because every party wants you to recycle. everybody wants you to solve the consumption built for us to be successful as a recycler, we have to have committee that takes and that's where government and private enterprise has a role to apply. in saying that a government the chicks is very large procures of products. 70 percent of text or recycling is currently mechanical, but that looks likely to change things to all the new chemical recycling companies . i'm a seem really boosting are recycling rates depends on changing the industries whole infrastructure, not just adding a couple of new technologies. things are currently so diary that recycling just 10 percent of global text always seems nearly you've toby get and this will still just be a drop in the bucket if we keep producing and singing amounts of clothing,

which depressing spoiler alert is projected to actually increase in the coming years, recycling is the only one part of the problem of a current consumption backend of cannot continue if you want to move to what the most sustainable of industrial there is a huge amount of over production in the industry and to whoever is responsible for that it's just a lot of the debated on that. bottom line is that a little production needs to, to, to, to use that 100000000000 garments we produce each year, means 14 for everyone in the world. if we can convince fashion victims to stop buying their body weight, including at least we can insure that as much as possible of what they purchase is recycled. well, i've done my part by having 0 pass and sense and walking around and around the old t shirts. what do you think? can you recycling technology is help save the textile industry?

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