An entirely new category of European-created textile fibres is rapidly emerging based on reclaiming textile waste and its global influence could be huge.
At the same time, it’s claimed this move could go a considerable way towards reversing some of the environmental problems that synthetic fibres – aligned with the fast fashion model – have subsequently created.
At the 62nd Dornbirn Global Manmade Fibers (GFC) conference held in Austria in September, it was immediately apparent that strategies for dealing with the proposed separate collection of textile waste within the European Union from 2025 are now rapidly accelerating.
