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Fashion's favorite green strategy-recycled polyester-might actually be worsening microplastics pollution, Changing Markets ...

But new laboratory research, published today by the non-profit Changing Markets Foundation, found that recycled polyester ...

Clothing made from recycled polyester releases over 50% more microplastic fibers during washing than virgin polyester, ...

Re&Up Recycling Technologies and Puma have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to scale a “fully circular textile solution, transforming textile waste” into the Sanko subsidiary’s recycled polyester chips ...

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry ...

Kipaş Textiles is stepping into the textile-to-textile recycling space with fibR-e, a new recycling platform that addresses ...

A new joint initiative is aiming to spur a shift in the market towards the uptake of recycled polyester (rPET) and the associated reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 2025. The 2025 Recycled ...

Tire manufacturer Toyo Tire & Rubber is now using Eco Circle tire cord made from recycled polyester and manufactured by Teijin Fibers Ltd., Tokyo. Tires using the recycled polyester cord are being ...

Bottle bales and PET flake prices kept downward this week. Cleaning plants and recycled polyester fiber plants mainly purchased on need-to-basis ...